User:Atamari/Permission/Sachara
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These emails were forwarded by Atamari to OTRS, tickets [1], [2], [3] --Ikiwaner 23:21, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
On Oct 25, 2005 at 23:31 xxx wrote:
Hello xxx, You can use my pictures from Virtualtourist for wikipedia under the conditions you wrote, no problem. My name is xxx xxx. Please let me know when, where or how I can find my pictures. Best regards, xxx
On Oct 25, 2005 at 11:12:25 PM CEST, Atamari wrote:
Hello I am an editor of Wikipedia (wikipedia.org), a multilingual project to create a complete, accurate, and open-content encyclopedia. Volunteers from around the world collaboratively edit Wikipedia, which is one of many projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation (wikimediafoundation.org). We depend on (photography) to clearly illustrate our articles. I enjoyed your many beautiful photos of gambia at your website by VT. However, we can only use your material if you are willing to grant permission for it to be used under terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (GNU-FDL, or GFDL for short). This means that although you retain the copyright and authorship of your own work, you are granting permission for others to use, copy, and share your materials freely, and even potentially use them commercially, so long as they do not try to claim the copyright themselves, or try to prevent others from using or copying them freely (e.g., "share-alike"). You can read this license in full at wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text of the GFDL). Please do note that your contributions may not remain intact as submitted; this license, as well as the collaborative nature of our project, also entitles others to edit, alter, and update them at will, i.e., to keep up with new information, or suit the text to a different purpose. However, the license also expressly protects authors "from being considered responsible for modifications made by others." If you do agree to grant permission for use, we will credit you, state the image was based on your work and is used with your permission, and provide a link back to your website. You are obviously an expert photographer. I hope you will consider accepting our request. Warmest regards, xxx