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; PortlandWiki operates under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons] licensing. If you wish to change the use of your images on PortlandWiki, here are some MediaWiki License options. For more information about photograph licensing, see this weblog post http://bit.ly/CommunityWikiPhotos
; This page feeds the "Licensing" menu in the [[Special:Upload|Upload file]] form. For information about what licenses PortlandWiki operates under and accepts, see [[PortlandWiki:Copyrights]].





Revision as of 01:01, 4 June 2011

This page feeds the "Licensing" menu in the Upload file form. For information about what licenses PortlandWiki operates under and accepts, see PortlandWiki:Copyrights.


  • subst:No license from license selector|Don't know|I do not know the license


  • subst:No license from license selector|Somewebsite|Found the image somewhere


  • subst:Permission from license selector|The copyright holder gave me permission to use this work only in PortlandWiki articles


  • subst:Non-commercial from license selector|The copyright holder only allows this work to be used for non-commercial and/or educational purposes


  • Your own work:
    • Allow non-commercial use, commercial use, and modifications as long as others credit you and share alike:
      • self|cc-by-sa-3.0|GFDL|migration=redundant|Own work, multi-license with CC-BY-SA-3.0 and GFDL
      • self|cc-by-sa-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0|Own work, multi-license with CC-BY-SA-3.0 and older
      • self|cc-by-sa-3.0|Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
    • Allow non-commercial use, commercial use, and modifications as long as others credit you:
      • self|cc-by-3.0|Own work, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
    • Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported with attribution
      • self|cc-by-nc-nd-3.0|Own work, allow non-commercial, non-derivative use
    • Reserve no rights:
      • self|cc-zero|Own work, release into public domain under the CC-Zero license


  • Freely licensed:
    • cc-by-sa-3.0|Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
    • cc-by-3.0|Creative Commons Attribution 3.0


  • Public domain:
    • Copyright expired:
      • PD-old|Author died more than 100 years ago
      • PD-art|- Photo of a two-dimensional work whose author died more than 100 years ago
      • PD-US|First published in the United States before 1923
    • Not covered by copyright:
      • PD-USGov|Work of a U.S. government agency
      • PD-text|Simple typefaces, individual words or geometric shapes
      • PD-textlogo|Logos with only simple typefaces, individual words or geometric shapes


  • Non-free / fair use:
    • Non-free logo|Logo
    • Non-free audio sample|Music sample
    • Non-free promotional|Promotional material
    • Non-free historic image|Historically significant fair use (deceased persons or historic events)