JargonWiki:Policy

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What follows are the standard policies governing the use, maintenance, and development of JargonWiki, and the guidelines governing user behavior. They are intentionally as lax as possible; the JargonWiki administrators want to encourage contribution and participation to the greatest degree feasible, while still maintaining the manageability, usability, usefulness, and scalability of the site.

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1. Intellectual Property Rights and Protections

Note: These policies are discussed in greater detail on the JargonWiki Copyright Policy page.

Unless otherwise indicated, all content on this site is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License version 3.0 and is the property of its original author, per the stipulations of that license. Therefore user contributions to this site remain the property of those users who submit it.
Articles based largely upon content in the public domain remain in the public domain, regardless of edits, changes, and contributions made by JargonWiki users. Thus as a condition of the editing privileges of those particular pages, any and all user contributions to those pages that contain articles originally based largely upon content in the public domain are also automatically and immediately dedicated to the public domain rather than falling under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License version 3.0, to which user contributions are subject by default.
User contributions to articles that are based substantially upon content subject to the GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL) will, in turn, be subject to the GNU FDL version 1.2, rather than the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License version 3.0, to which user contributions are subject by default.
Software created or adapted specifically for JargonWiki by the project administrators is subject to the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) version 3.0. Users are free to copy and adapt this software in turn for their own uses, per the stipulations of the GNU GPL. However, no user contributions to the software that powers JargonWiki will be accepted. As such, no user submissions or contributions will be subject to the GNU GPL.

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