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This wiki's content is licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, unless otherwise indicated. Please play along, and we'll all benefit from a useful ZZT reference. | This wiki's content is licensed under the [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ CC BY-SA 4.0] license, unless otherwise indicated. Please play along, and we'll all benefit from a useful ZZT reference. | ||
You own copyright on your contributions, and you can license them differently so long as the terms are compatible: e.g., you can upload an image you created and place it in the public domain. | You own copyright on your contributions, and you can license them differently so long as the terms are compatible: e.g., you can upload an image you created and place it in the public domain. | ||
Some content may fall under the category of fair use, such as screenshots of copyrighted software for illustrative purposes. Those are okay. | Some content may fall under the category of [https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/what-is-fair-use/ fair use], such as screenshots of copyrighted software for illustrative purposes. Those are okay. | ||
[https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html#what_protect Facts are not copyrightable]. If you learn about ZZT's 20,000 byte board limit from an encyclopedia, that encyclopedia does not have a copyright on the number 20,000. You can feel free to write about that number (in your own words) without any need to get permission from the encyclopedia's creator. | |||
Revision as of 06:56, 6 June 2020
This wiki's content is licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, unless otherwise indicated. Please play along, and we'll all benefit from a useful ZZT reference.
You own copyright on your contributions, and you can license them differently so long as the terms are compatible: e.g., you can upload an image you created and place it in the public domain.
Some content may fall under the category of fair use, such as screenshots of copyrighted software for illustrative purposes. Those are okay.
Facts are not copyrightable. If you learn about ZZT's 20,000 byte board limit from an encyclopedia, that encyclopedia does not have a copyright on the number 20,000. You can feel free to write about that number (in your own words) without any need to get permission from the encyclopedia's creator.