[Wikinews-l] News sharing

[Brian McNeil]

On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 12:26 -0400, bawolff wrote:
> Ads are perfectly fine. Pretty much as long as you give us the credit
> line, you can do whatever you want with it (or as
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ puts it, you are free to
> share, transmit, re-use, modify, or adapt, even in a commercial
> manner, as long as attribution is provided).

/me gives bawolff a public-service barnstar.

> 
> cheers.
> -bawolff
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Gianni Sabbione
> <gsabbione at argentina.com> wrote:
> > Thank you Bawolff! I will be supporting it via ads, is there any problem
> > with that?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Juan
> >
> > ----- Mensaje original -----
> > Fecha: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 20:55:35 -0400
> > De: "bawolff" <bawolff+wn at gmail.com>
> > Para: "Wikinews mailing list" <wikinews-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> > Asunto: Re: [Wikinews-l] News sharing
> > Copia: gsabbione at argentina.com
> >
> > Not only is it ok, its encouraged. All you have to do, is for anything
> > that you add which is based on something from wikinews, at the end of
> > the article, add a line like:
> >
> > This article is based on the Wikinews article "<article title at
> > wikinews>"  which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution
> > 2.5 license
> >
> > And have the word Wikinews linked to http://en.wikinews.org , have
> > "<article title at wikinews>" linked to the specific article on
> > wikinews, and Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license linked to
> > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/
> >
> >
> > Please also note that well the text of the article is licensed under
> > the cc-by 2.5, images typically are not. Before copying an image, you
> > should check its copyright status (click on the image in question).
> > Typically you can copy the images as well, but sometimes they require
> > different attributions.
> >
> > Cheers, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.
> > --
> > - Bawolff
> > Caution: The mass of this product contains the energy equivalent of 85
> > million tons of TNT per net ounce of weight.
> >
> > p.s. I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice. If you need legal
> > advice you should ask a lawyer. There is always the possibility I am
> > incorrect in my understanding of how the world works, and could be
> > wrong.
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Gianni Sabbione <gsabbione at argentina.com>
> > wrote:
> >> Hello, I am opening a free news service website and I want to add some
> >> news
> >> from Wikinews. I have read that it can be done via "Creative Commons"
> >> licensing, is it OK?
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot in advance,
> >> Juan
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> >>
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Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org>
Wikinewsie.org
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