User talk:Applepwnz

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[edit] Re: Trace

If it's all fine by the copyright holder, then you're halfway to getting it up on Wikipedia without problem. There are two outstanding things:

One is to make sure that the copyright holder knows that Wikipedia material can be freely reused by other unrelated organisations and people, including commercially and without royalty. Some people will grant permission if we ask them just "can we use X on Wikipedia?" but won't grant permission if they know the full consequences for their material if they say Yes. It's necessary that they give permission while knowing this, or it's not technically licensed to us for use. From what you said, it sounds like they've agreed to that simple question, but not necessarily to the larger question of reuse and commercial rights. (A copy of the legal text of the license they have to agree to is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License . In practice, the phrase "can be freely used and modified by anyone else for any purpose, including commercially" covers all the points that copyright holders are likely to care about, but it's good to include a link to the full thing when we ask, so they can see the details if they want.)

Once that's been done, the second thing is to post the permission in two places. This is quoting from Wikipedia:Example requests for permission: "If you are granted permission post the details of the permission granted at Wikipedia:Successful requests for permission. You should also send a copy of your request and the response to permissions AT wikimedia DOT org where it will be permanently archived."

I know it's a bit involved, but by doing that it's solid and ironclad. For convenience, people often mention on the Talk page of the article that permission has been granted, with a link to the entry on the Successful Requests page. That way other editors coming along won't see that it "matches" and assume that permission hasn't been gotten properly. — Saxifrage ✎ 04:33, 12 September 2006 (UTC)