Difference between revisions of "Terms of Use"

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(Fair-use rationale for non-free copyrighted material)
(Archive proposed text on retro-computing material as there is none on this site as this time.)
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This website contains content reproduced under several different licenses, and it is important to be aware of which license or combination of licenses applies to any given piece of content (files, wiki pages, images and so on.)
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The text of the wiki pages is licensed under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA 3.0)] and the [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL).] This is the same license set-up as [http://en.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia] at the time of writing.
 
 
The text of the wiki pages is licensed under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License]. This is the same license as [http://en.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia] at the time of writing.
 
 
 
However, any files downloadable from this website may have different license restrictions, and may be "non-free".
 
 
 
Such copyrighted files and material may have been sourced from other websites and may at previous times been available as part of paid-for commercial services. Before using any of this content you should ensure that your use of the content meets any licensing restrictions.
 
 
 
== Fair-use rationale for non-free copyrighted material ==
 
 
 
The primary focus of this website is Linux on the Alpha architecture. As Alpha hardware is no longer being manufactured, and no commercial Linux distributions are believed to offer paid support for it:
 
# It is thought that the publishing Alpha-related copyrighted material should have no material impact on any legitimate commercial revenue that could have been generated by the copyright holders.
 
# It is thought that the end-users accessing this material would not be able to derive any commercial benefit from it.
 
# The publishing of copyrighted materials is therefore thought to fall under "fair dealing" in the United Kingdom and other parts of the world, because the uses of such materials will be "non-commercial research and private study".
 
# As a further explanation, such copyright material should fall under the general category of "retro-computing", where the material is effectively no longer capable of any commercial exploitation now or in the future.
 

Revision as of 19:49, 7 January 2015

The text of the wiki pages is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA 3.0) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). This is the same license set-up as Wikipedia at the time of writing.