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In certain circumstances, content will be licensed under [https://robla.net/2004/license/bsd.txt the BSD license]. In particular, any pages marked with the <nowiki>{{bsd-licensed}}</nowiki> tag in the source of the page, or any new pages in the "MediaWiki" namespace are licensed under the BSD license above. This difference in license allows Electowidget to be hosted on Electowiki, and allows Electowidget development to happen without encumbering Electowidget with other licenses.
Unless you are the sole contributor to an article, please refrain from changing the license on that article.
'''Do not''' submit content under any license other than
For any text you hold the copyright to, by submitting it, you agree to license it under the license for that page (by default [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 (Unported)]). For compatibility reasons, you are also required to license it under the [https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html GNU Free Documentation License] (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts). Re-users can choose the license(s) they wish to comply with. Please note that these licenses ''do'' allow commercial uses of your contributions, as long as such uses are compliant with the terms.▼
* [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Share Alike License 3.0]
* [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Share Alike License 4.0]
* [https://robla.net/2004/license/bsd.txt the BSD license]
▲For any text you hold the copyright to, by submitting it, you agree to license it under the license for that page (by default [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/
As an author, you agree to be attributed in any of the following fashions: a) through a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to the article or articles you contributed to, b) through a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to an alternative, stable online copy which is freely accessible, which conforms with the license, and which provides credit to the authors in a manner equivalent to the credit given on this website, or c) through a list of all authors. (Any list of authors may be filtered to exclude very small or irrelevant contributions.)▼
As an author, you agree to be attributed in any of the following fashions:
If you want to import content that you have found elsewhere or that you have co-authored with others, you can only do so if it is available under terms that are compatible with the CC-BY-SA license. You do not need to ensure or guarantee that the imported content is available under the GNU Free Documentation License. Furthermore, please note that you cannot import information which is available ''only'' under the GFDL. In other words, you may only import text that is (a) single-licensed under terms compatible with the CC-BY-SA license or (b) dual-licensed with the GFDL and another license with terms compatible with the CC-BY-SA license▼
* a) through a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to the article or articles you contributed to,
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* c) through a list of all authors. (Any list of authors may be filtered to exclude very small or irrelevant contributions.)
▲If you want to import content that you have found elsewhere or that you have co-authored with others, you can only do so if it is available under terms that are compatible with the CC-BY-SA license. You do not need to ensure or guarantee that the imported content is available under the GNU Free Documentation License ("GFDL") or compatible with said GFDL. Furthermore, please note that you cannot import information which is available ''only'' under the GFDL. In other words, you may only import text that is
* (a) single-licensed under terms compatible with the CC-BY-SA license — '''OR''' —
* (b) dual-licensed with the GFDL and another license with terms compatible with the CC-BY-SA license
If you import text under a compatible license which requires attribution, you must, in a reasonable fashion, credit the author(s). Where such credit is commonly given through page histories, it is sufficient to give attribution in the edit summary, which is recorded in the page history, when importing the text. Regardless of the license, the text you import may be rejected if the required attribution is deemed too intrusive.
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* 3) Indicate changes: If you make modifications or additions, you must indicate in a reasonable fashion that the original work has been modified. If you are re-using the page in a wiki, for example, indicating this in the page history is sufficient.
* 4) Licensing notice: Each copy or modified version that you distribute must include a licensing notice stating that the work is released under CC-BY-SA and either
** 4a) a hyperlink or URL to the text of the license
** 4b) a copy of the license. For this purpose, a suitable URL is: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
* 5) For further information, please refer to the [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode legal code of the CC-BY-SA License].
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