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On 8/21/07, Delphine Ménard <notafishz(a)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
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