MediaWiki:Licenses

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PortlandWiki operates under 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


  • 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)