Wikipedia:WikiProject Copyright Cleanup/Sources

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The purpose of this page is to keep a list of specific sources that come up often and to clarify their licensing status. In particular with different wikis, questions about whether their licensing terms are compatible with Wikipedia so that their content can be reproduced here without having to go through the procedure of donating copyrighted material tend to come up fairly often.

This page therefore aims to provide one at-a-glance resource to check.

Updates to this page, re-evaluation

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Note that this page only aims to provide a list of the present consensus. If you wish to challenge any entry's interpretation, you can do so at the talk page, WT:C or WT:CP.


General CC BY-SA compatibility chart

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Sometimes, material may be already free for use, and it can be a simple matter of providing evidence of that (for one example, by providing a link to show where on the site the material is already placed in public domain). If it is released under free license, it may come down to a question of whether the licenses are compatible with CC-By-SA. (Source: [1])

License Compatibility
Creative Commons Licenses
License/Compatible License/Compatible
CC-By-NC Red XN CC-By 2.0 Green tickY
CC-By-NC-ND Red XN CC-By 2.5 Green tickY
CC-By-ND Red XN CC-By 3.0 Green tickY
CC-By-NC-SA Red XN CC-By-SA 1.0[1], 2.0, 2.5, 3.0 Green tickY
CC BY-SA 4.0 (text) Red XN CC BY-SA 4.0 (images) Green tickY
Other Licenses
Any GNU only license up to and including 1.3 Red XN GFDL & CC-By or CC-By-SA Green tickY

Other Wikis, by name

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Source Status Reason
Banglapedia Red XN Fully copyright
Citizendium Green tickY CC BY-SA 3.0
Comixpedia.org Red XN GFDL 1.2 only source
Conservapedia Red XN Per counsel advice. See also 1, 2, 3 and 4
Hoopedia Red XN All rights reserved
SikhiWiki Green tickY GFDL and CC-By-SA [2]
Shetlopedia Red XN Fully copyrighted, see here
Wikibin Green tickY Note that since Wikibin reposts material deleted on Wikipedia, you will have to petition an admin to restore the deleted content to maintain attribution to the original author. Pages copied from Wikibin may be eligible for deletion under CSD G4.
Wikipilipinas Red XN GFDL 1.2 only source

Footnotes

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