Request authorization to copy texts and pictures to Wikipedia about librepcb-website HOT 7 CLOSED

With #54, the website content is now licensed as CC-BY-3.0 (see text in the website footer) so it should be fine to use the content for a Wikipedia page.

@doom-fr It would be awesome if you could try again to add LibrePCB to Wikipedia, maybe this time it works 🙂

Closing this issue since the license should be clarified now.

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For information, my modifications have been rolled back because I need to first create a page for LibrePCB

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Sure, copying text and images from https://librepcb.org/ to Wikipedia is fine for me!

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Here is the answer :

Doom*, Sorry, but that statement is not adequate for our purposes, because it only allows the material to be copied to Wikipedia. Our license allows the material to be re-copied and reused by anyone for any purpose. So what we need is for the material to be released under a compatible license. There's more information on how to do it at WP:Donating copyrighted materials and there's a sample permission email at WP:consent.

So can you please give to Wikipedia a non-exclusive license under Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts) ?

You can do this with sending an email.

It is explained in the second link.

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Oops I completely forgot this issue, sorry 🙁

It might be a silly question, but if we put the website content under the CC-BY-SA-4.0 license, probably the issue is solved "automatically" (i.e. we don't have to manually grant permissions for Wikipedia), isn't it?

Is it common practice to put the website of an OpenSource project under this license? But how should files be handled which were not created by us? For example an image like the FOSDEM logo is (obviously) copied from somewhere else and might be licensed differently...

@dbrgn do you have any experience with that?

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@ubruhin we can put the text (but not media) of the website under CC-BY-SA. Yes, this is something that I've seen other projects doing.

Mentioning the license in the footer would be sufficient, I think. Something like this:

All text content on this website is licensed under [CC-BY-SA 4.0](...).

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OK sounds good 👍

And regarding images, I've found this thread in the Hugo forum:

if you are using page resources, then you can list the license info within the front matter. then, your page template can parse this, list it where you want. you could even modify the figure shortcode to automagically insert it into the figcaption.

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