True Orthodox Wiki:Copyright

True Orthodox Wiki contains pages which users have copied over from Orthodox Wiki. Please take note of the Orthodox Wiki copyrights here.

In short: Those pages which have been copied from Orthodox Wiki are necessarily under a GFDL and CC-BY-NC license (meaning that one can choose to use them under one of the two, or to keep the dual license). Some of the edits in those pages may have been made prior to the dual license, so that they might be available only under CC-BY-NC. Imports from Orthodox Wiki should be clearly identified as such, so that one can credit the authors as required by both licenses. In fact it is really not enough to credit only Orthodox Wiki; that website may go down in future and the license requires us to give attribution here.

The text copied over was not a database dump coming with edit history included. Hence, in order to comply with copyright requirements, it is being proposed that the best place to give attribution would be in either a footnote or the talk page of the article. A simple note that the page incorporates text from Orthodox Wiki, the page name on that website, and a list of all users who contributed there should be sufficient. (Username if no real name is given.)

In order to simplify things, so that we do not have one set of copyright licenses for articles already copied from Orthodox Wiki and another set of licenses for new edits, it is being proposed that True Orthodox Wiki should retain the same policy of dual licensing articles under CC-BY-NC and GFDL that is already used by Orthodox Wiki.

Please engage with this proposal in the discussion page.