Information for contributors to HerpWiki
All users contributing to HerpWiki are required to grant broad permissions to the general public to re-distribute and re-use their contributions freely, as long as the use is attributed. Therefore, for any content you hold the copyright to, by submitting it, you agree to license it under the CC-BY-NC-ND License.
As an author, you agree to be attributed in any of the following fashions: a) through a hyperlink (where possible) or URL to the article or articles you contributed to, b) through 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) through a list of all authors. (Any list of authors may be filtered to exclude very small or irrelevant contributions.)
Importing content:
If you want to import content that you have found elsewhere or that you have co-authored with others, you can only do so if it is available under terms that are compatible with the CC-BY-NC-ND license.
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Information for re-users
You can re-use content from HerpWiki freely, with the exception of content that is used under "fair use" exemptions, or similar exemptions of copyright law. Please follow the guidelines below:
- Attribution: To re-distribute content 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 content developed by the HerpWiki 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.
- Licensing notice: Each copy that you distribute must include a licensing notice stating that the work is released under CC-BY-NC-ND 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-nc-nd/3.0/
- For further information, please refer to the legal code of the CC-BY-NC-ND License.
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