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On 8/21/07, Delphine Ménard notafishz@gmail.com wrote:
You would retain copyright (ie. ownership, the right to be credited, and some other rights), but allow others to use your work under the conditions listed by the GFDL or CC licences. To make a long and complex story short, such licences as GFDL or CC-BY-SA allow you to decide once and for all the restrictions you want to apply to your images/texts and frees others willing to reuse your work from having to ask every single time they use it. They just need to respect the license.
It is very important to understand that putting your work under a free licence does not mean that you are "losing" anything. You are "giving up" certain rights, while making sure others are exerted along terms you have chosen and not by a default law.
Delphine