This image was created by Chris 73. The image is licensed under a dual license; please choose either of the two licenses below as desired. Attribution to Wikipedia or another project of the Wikimedia foundation is required for both licenses if the image is used outside of projects of the Wikimedia foundation. Attribution to me is not required.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License. www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3.htmlGFDL 1.3GNU Free Documentation License 1.3truetrue

This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

Attribution: Chris 73 / Wikimedia Commons

You are free:

• to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
• to remix – to adapt the work

Under the following conditions:

• attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
• share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.

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"I want to use the image. How do I do that?"

You can use this image freely for any purpose, including commercial use, provided that you license it under one of the above licenses. My suggestion is to use the following text:

This Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons image is from the user Chris 73 and is freely available at //commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edo_period_Wakizashi.jpg under the creative commons cc-by-sa 3.0 license.

For privacy reasons please use only "Chris 73" as author. If necessary, please translate the text in your language. For electronic use please include the links in the text as shown, for printed use please print the text as shown. If you use the image I would appreciate it if you would let me know on my talk page, but this is not required as long as you follow one of the above licenses.