On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Nalin Savara <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All, > > Hope my mail finds all in best health and spirits. > > Assume that one desires to use a image from wikipedia in something s/he > will > sell-- for example, a elearning course OR a website template. > > Can someone sue me if I use the above image ? > > Also, what are some of the licensing terms-- one should look for-- if one > desires to re-use content ? > What are some repositories of content where one can find content with > licenses that are friendly to me for the above purpose ? > > > Please do let me know... > > > Thanks and Best Regards, > > NS > _______________________________________________ > I too have some confusion over it, But It seem to me, many a time wikipedia use dual licence , GFDL + CC. i think i this case it is CC-By-SA, (appears from your mail)* **CC-BY-SA [2] * *In the Creative Commons Attribution and Share Alike license (CC-BY-SA), re-users are free to make derivative works and copy, distribute, display, and perform the work, even commercially.* *When re-using the work or distributing it, you must attribute the work to the author(s) and you must mention the license terms or a link to them. You must make your version available under CC-BY-SA.* So just use the image and put the image with same CC-BY-SA licence with mentioning the author's name. Hope this can help - [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reusing_Wikipedia_content [2] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) │ R&D Engineer │ Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org │ Twitter : http://tinyurl.com/dz7e4a └─────────────────────────┘ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
