WikiHealth:Copyleft

WikiHealth uses a copyleft license for all text, images, and other content on the Web site. Anyone can use WikiHealth content according to the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License license. And anyone can contribute their own or other people's text and images, as long as the work is their own or available under a compatible license.

Things for users to know

Copyleft means that every single author, editor, illustrator, mapmaker, factchecker and photographer who puts their work into WikiHealth gives you the right to read, copy, print, save, download, read aloud, project, modify, email, distribute, sell, photocopy and correct their work however you want to.

The only restrictions are that if you distribute it, you must give attribution to the creators, and if you derive new work from it, you must give the same rights to users of that work.

In other words, we give you practically every freedom within the boundaries of the law to use the information in WikiHealth, except the freedom to take that freedom away from others.

The license we use is the GNU Free Documentation License license. For the purposes of the License, a Work is the formatted text that makes up a single WikiHealth article. Each image individually is also a Work for the purposes of the License.

In addition, there may be other restrictions on use or distribution based on law in your country or state; in particular, consider photographs of people, and publicity rights for photographs or representations of people and possibly famous sites.

Things for contributors to know

Copyleft means that every single yahoo, nutcase, screwjob, charlatan, shyster, weirdo, freakazoid, mouthbreather, goofball, lamer, cheater and jerk will have the right to read, copy, print, save, download, read aloud, project, modify, email, distribute, sell, photocopy and correct your work however they want to.

In particular, your work can be ruthlessly modified, edited, or cut from WikiHealth by other community members. It can be photocopied thousands of times and passed around as flyers by itinerant backpackers. It can be put in Hollywood movies, and it can be projected onto a screen at an outdoor rave. It can be used for commercial ventures, advertisements, or other purposes without your direct control.

In return for your incredible generosity, you will have the knowledge that you are helping travellers all over the world, and that all copies made of your work will be attributed to you, and that everyone who derives new works from yours will have to be just as generous as you are. And, of course, you get to use all the other work in WikiHealth the same way; but you don't need to contribute to do that.

You'll also get the pleasure of collaborating with hundreds of other WikiHealth community members just like yourself. You'll get free spellcheck service from nit-picky folks you've never met. You'll work together with people you don't know to make better pictures, text, and maps than you've ever dreamed of. You still retain the copyright over your own work, and you can use it any other way you want (even if it's not compatible with our license!).

Now, the hard part: because of the GNU Free Documentation License,you are legally responsible not to put other people's copyrighted work into WikiHealth without permission. (An GNU-compatible license counts as permission!) You are responsible for getting model releases from people you take pictures of, and you are responsible for any libel you include in your articles.

Before editing WikiHealth articles or uploading pictures, you should read very carefully the license policies and make sure that you agree to it. For images, it's important to mark the image as either your own work, or give information on who made the picture and why you think it's compatible with our license. See WikiHealth:Image policy for more information.