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Copyvio tag

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The copyvio tag was added because the source, http://www.nativewiki.org/Eddie_Chuculate, is listed as GFDL 1.2. While this may seem counterintuitive, since the licensing transition completed on June 16th this year, we can no longer accept any text licensed under the GFDL only, it needs to be either WP:CC-BY-SA only, or dual-licensed to be both GFDL AND a license compatible with WP:CC-BY-SA. From WP:C#Contributors' rights and obligations:

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.

The resulting text, while no longer directly resembling the source, has grown organically and probably forms an infringing derivative work, which cannot be kept in its present form.

Possible resolutions:

  • If the NativeWiki authors could be contacted, WP:PERMISSION would be the way forward
  • NativeWiki could change their licensing to GFDL 1.3 and dual licensing, but this is unlikely since the deadline to do so expires on August 1st
  • Rewrite the article from scratch on the temporary supbage.

I suspect the latter is the only practical form, though. MLauba (talk) 09:00, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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One or more portions of this article duplicated other source(s). Infringing material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you. --CactusWriter | needles 10:40, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]