CopyRights - Converge

All contributions to Converge are the property of the submiter unless otherwise noted (for example; the submiter may be posting public domain text or other text they were given permission to copy, modify and republish under our copyright terms). All content is considered to be released under the following terms unless otherwise indicated (for example; a clearly-marked quotation);

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

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1 Publication by third parties
- o 1.1 Use on the Internet o 1.2 Use in hardcopy
2 Copyright infringements
3 Fair Use Material

Publication by third parties

You may use the same title as Converge and/or module(s) but trademark law prevents you from advertising the Converge or Wikimedia names without our written permission. This does not prevent you from giving either Converge or Wikimedia credit for the work by name; as a matter of fact we very much appreciate all the credit we can get (this is a separate issue from author credit; see below). But it does legally prevent you from leading your readers to believe that your version of our work is in fact an official Converge or Wikimedia publication. See below for more.

Use on the Internet

For specifics read: GNU Free Documentation License

Mention Converge as the source (not mandatory; but appreciated)
Provide a functional link back to Converge (this satisfies the author credit requirement of our license)
State that the text is available under the GNU Free Documentation License
Link to a copy of the GNU FDL license (preferably stored on your own server).
Your version of the text must be machine readable (meaning you cannot prevent others from copying the text)

Use in hardcopy

For specifics read: GNU Free Documentation License

Mention Converge as the source (not mandatory; but appreciated)
Give credit to at least 5 authors listed on the "Authors" page of whatever book you are re-publishing (if fewer than 5 then include all).
State that the text is available under the GNU Free Documentation License on at least one page of the book with the above bolded copyright notice.
A full copy of the license needs to be included with the printed book.
Whenever more than 100 copies are made, you must (choose one):
1. Provide a floppy disk, CD, DVD or other computer media with the entire content of the book in machine readable text.
2. Provide a network link to a website where the machine readable text can be obtained (this link must remain active for at least one year after publication of the hardcopy; if all you are doing is making an exact copy of Converge, then you may use the URL of the corresponding Converge index page).

If you are the owner of content that is being used on Converge without your permission, then please contact our Designated agent to have it permanently removed (you may blank the page but the text will still be in the page history). You may also place the module title of the offending page on Converge Votes for deletion. We will, of course, need some evidence to support your claim of ownership.

If you suspect that content on a particular module contains a copyright infringement, then you may replace the text with the boilerplate copyright infringement notice text at Converge Boilerplate text.

Alternatively, you can use a predefined template which can be described as following:

This will produce the following content:

POSSIBLE COPYRIGHT VIOLATION

The content of this page appears to infringe on the copyright of the text from the source(s) below:

<URL of web page containing copyright violation>

The posting of copyrighted material that does not have the express permission from the copyright holder is possibly illegal and is a violation of our policy. Those who repeatedly post copyrighted material may be temporarily blocked from editing pages.

To the poster:

If there was permission to use this material under terms of our license or if you are the copyright holder of the externally linked text, then please indicate so on this page's talk page.
If there was no permission to use this material then please leave this page to be deleted. Deletion will occur about one week from the time this template was added to the page. Once this page has been deleted, do not resubmit the material that was here before. We still welcome any original contributions by you.

In addition, this template will automatically add the violating page to Category Copyright violations which will be reviewed by administrators at Wikibooks.

Fair Use Material

In some situations you may encounter material on Converge that has been added according to the Converge Fair Use Policy. The restricted sub-set of fair-use material should be legal to reproduce in most countries around the world, but you should check with expert legal opinion if you plan to commercially reproduce this sort of content, or if you plan on distributing a large number of copies of any Wikibooks content that uses this sort of material. All material that is being used under fair-use guidelines should be clearly identified as such, either through an image copyright identification tag or within the Wikibook itself.

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