The Open Siddur Project Transcription and Documentation Wiki:Copyright

The Open Siddur Project is a free culture/free and open source software project. As such, users are guaranteed certain freedoms with respect to the work our project produces.

Attribution
The Open Siddur Project provides attribution for shared/contributed content as follows:

Copyright [Years] The contributors to the Open Siddur Project A list of contributors is available at [link].

In printed editions, a credit list is generated from the XML data.

For reuse, credit should be provided in a manner consistent with the medium in which the material is being reused. Some guidelines:

Re-use of text:


 * Attribution: To re-distribute a text page in any form, provide credit to the authors either by including a) a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to the page or pages you are re-using, b) a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to an alternative, stable online copy which is freely accessible, which conforms with the license, and which provides credit to the authors in a manner equivalent to the credit given on this website, or c) a list of all authors. (Any list of authors may be filtered to exclude very small or irrelevant contributions.) This applies to text developed by the Wikimedia community. Text from external sources may attach additional attribution requirements to the work, which we will strive to indicate clearly to you. For example, a page may have a banner or other notation indicating that some or all of its content was originally published somewhere else. Where such notations are visible in the page itself, they should generally be preserved by re-users.


 * Copyleft/Share Alike: If you make modifications or additions to the page you re-use, you must license them under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0 or later.


 * Indicate changes: If you make modifications or additions, you must indicate in a reasonable fashion that the original work has been modified. If you are re-using the page in a wiki, for example, indicating this in the page history is sufficient.


 * Licensing notice: Each copy or modified version that you distribute must include a licensing notice stating that the work is released under CC BY-SA and either a) a hyperlink or URL to the text of the license or b) a copy of the license. For this purpose, a suitable URL is: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/


 * For further information, please refer to the legal code of the CC BY or CC BY-SA License.

(These guidelines are a modified version of Wikipedia's Terms of Use, which are licensed under the CC BY-SA 3.0 License, accessed July 21, 2009. The revision history is located there.)

Scanned Images
Digital images produced by scanning of works in the public domain are released under CC 0, an international public domain declaration. Even though it is not required by this license, the project will maintain credit for those responsible for scanning images to the best of its ability. Scanned images are used as source material for transcription and as a reference for layout schemas. These images are stored on our servers.

For information on how our project attributes this work, see below.

Transcribed Text
Texts transcribed from scanned images are temporarily housed on this wiki. Text transcribed from manuscripts or books that are in in the Public Domain must be released under CC0, an international public domain declaration. Even though it is not required to by the license, the project will maintain credit for those responsible for transcribing and proofreading text to the best of its ability. Texts may not be transcribed from material that is not in the Public Domain without permission from the copyright owner unless that material was released under a license compatible with CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Wiki documentation
Documentation on the wiki is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.

JLPTEI
The JLPTEI documentation (and all items in Category:JLPTEI) must be dual-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported and the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later.

This is because the compiled XML schemas are derived from the Text Encoding Initiative schemas, which are licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.

Software
Other software produced by the project, including the processing software, is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3 or later (LGPL 3+).

Software distributed with the project may have other licenses.


 * File headers and/or the wiki revision history indicate the licensing status of any file and its copyright ownership.
 * Contributors retain copyright to all work they submit, and may license the same work (nonexclusively) to others under any other terms.
 * All work submitted to us must be contributed under one of the licenses above.

Sharing/Contributing Copyrighted Work
Works of original authorship may be shared with the project under any of the following licenses, at the choice of the author:
 * Creative Commons Zero (CC0)
 * Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY)
 * Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA)

Click here to learn how you can currently submit and contribute new content to the Open Siddur under one of the licenses above.