EduTech Wiki:Copyrights

Readers / Users

Unless otherwise stated in individual pages (we do have special permission to reproduce some copyrighted materials here), contents of this Wiki (Edutech Wiki) are available under the Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike (by-nc-sa) licence.

In short, this means you are free:

• to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
• to make derivative works

Under the following conditions:

Attribution: You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (see citation method below)

Noncommercial: You may not use this work for commercial purposes.

Share Alike: If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one.

• This is a human-readable summary of the Legal Code (the full license).

Citation method

• Use any reasonable method you like. If an article is explicitly signed by authors, you also are invited to cite the authors (sorry, this is a bit of extra work).

• To make citations easy: Click on "Cite this article" link that appears in the toolbox menu to the left when you read a standard article. It will provide you with a series of possible citation styles and in addition a link to the precise version of the page. Of course, you also may just point to the generic version of a page ...

Exclusive rights granted to PediaPress

On May 3 we installed the collection extension by http://pediapress.com/. You can order printed "[:Category:books|book]s" from Pediapress - Daniel K. Schneider 09:50, 5 May 2009 (UTC).

Pediapress is authorized to sell books generated from this wiki under the following conditions:

• Pediapress may copy, distribute and sell wiki-books made from Edutech Wiki
• Pediapress may not alter, transform, or build upon the contents of these wiki-books.
• Pediapress must include the original licence in the wiki-books, i.e. Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike (by-nc-sa) by default. Some pages may include manually inserted copyright statements. It is the wiki user's (and not Pediapress) responsability to insure that none of these are violated.

Explanation: Pediapress will make some money with these books, which is perfectly acceptable since we get the code in exchange and since it donates 10% to Wikipeida. However, we would like to retain our copyright scheme in the resulting wiki books and which is more restrictive than Wikipedia's. This is btw. automatically done by the mw-render engine.

Authors

Important notice for authors external to TECFA:

You can sign your contributions (see the help:editing rules). Ideally, we would like the Wiki to insert author names automatically, but for now - if you wish to be known as author of an article - you have to insert your name (and affiliation) manually on top of your article or section. You also can add a <pageby/> tag like here.

Daniel K. Schneider reserves the right to use any writings for other purposes (unless there is a special copyright on those parts). E.g. I am working on a textbook. In case this happens, you certainly will be cited if I can identify your contribution. In other words, by default, you grant the owners of this wiki a simple attribution license. If you plan to contribute under different conditions, let Daniel K. Schneider know and we surely can reach an agreement.

See also our Privacy policy which is not the same as on Wikipedia (i.e. we require authors to have a login and in addition a reasonable way of "real world" identification if you wish to be cited for any contribution).

- Daniel K. Schneider 11:08, 12 July 2007 (MEST)