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All text contained in the AstrologyNotes article namespace is licensed to the public under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). All AstrologyNotes content can be copied, modified, and redistributed so long as the new work complies with the GFDL, which primarily means including this license and a direct link back to the specific revision of the article used. Please note that users may post items on their user page which they do not intend to become public domain. If no explicit copyright is given, please seek permission from the user before copying text or graphics from a user page. Note also that images on article pages should be either in the public domain or licensed by the GFDL, but there may be some which have been labeled questionable. Please check the image description for details before using any graphics on AstrologyNotes.

Our license statement:

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included below.

Content on AstrologyNotes is covered by disclaimers.

You can see a local copy of the full text of the GFDL here.

1 What is a document?
2 Contributing material to AstrologyNotes
3 Using AstrologyNotes articles as a reference
- 3.1 APA style
- 3.2 MLA style
4 Using AstrologyNotes in other publications
- 4.1 Verbatim copying
- 4.2 Derived works
5 References

What is a document?

We use the words "this document" above because that is the wording used in the GFDL license, however AstrologyNotes can also be considered a collection of documents and we mean this one statement to apply to all of them. In addition, we consider all images, media files and templates to be aggregated with the articles. Therefore, the license statement applies to all text in the AstrologyNotes article namespace and optionally includes all images, etc., embedded in the articles (meaning you do not have to include images, etc., but if you do they must comply with the GFDL).

Contributing material to AstrologyNotes

When you add text or images to AstrologyNotes, you license it to the public under the GFDL (with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts). This means one of two things:

You own the copyright because you produced it yourself (such as the original text of an article). Note that if you are modifying an existing article on AstrologyNotes that does not qualify as your own creation, but if you create a new article (or section of article) with your own text this is your own creation. In this case you retain copyright and can later publish or license it in any way you like. However, once you place that article, image, etc. on AstrologyNotes, the version of it listed here must remain under the GFDL forever. So you might publish the exact same article in a magazine for instance, but the new copyright you obtain on that printing will not have any effect on the version you placed on AstrologyNotes, you can't modify or retract your past contributions.
You obtain it from another source licensed under the GFDL, or that is under the public domain (for example, copying an article from wikipedia.org). In this case, if it is public domain you don't need to do anything (except state so on the description page if it is an image or media file) and if it is under the GFDL license you need to acknowledge the authorship and provide a link back to the location of the original copy or otherwise provide a transparent copy of revisions. If the original copy required invariant sections, you have to incorporate those into the AstrologyNotes article (wikipedia.org for instance does not have invariant sections).

Using AstrologyNotes articles as a reference

AstrologyNotes content can be used and cited like any other reference work, but each article used on AstrologyNotes must be cited separately. The revision date of the article (as seen in the page history for that article) is the "date of publication". If there was more than one revision on a date, you may need to supply the time on the revision date as well. The time will be in UTC unless you are a logged in member and have set your time zone preferences differently. If using the MLA standard, you may need to include both the revision date and the retrieval date, even if they are the same.

The easiest way to cite an AstrologyNotes article is to use the Special:Cite page.

APA style

Sun in Aries (2005, August 8). AstrologyNotes. Retrieved August 8, 2005, from http://astrologynotes.org/Sun_in_Aries.

MLA style

"Sun in Aries" AstrologyNotes. 8 August 2005, 10:55 UTC. 8 August 2005 http://astrologynotes.org/Sun_in_Aries.

Using AstrologyNotes in other publications

AstrologyNotes content can be freely copied and reused in other published works provided the requirements of the GFDL are met. This may be either verbatim copying or derived works. Following are brief descriptions of what we interpret the GFDL license to require for each type of use, but you should read the full text of the GNU Free Document License before publishing any works with AstrologyNotes materials, as additional requirements may apply.

Verbatim copying

In a nutshell, if you are copying the articles verbatim, include the full text of the GFDL license and include the license notice granting GFDL licensing to all the copied articles (as we have done at the top of this page), along with the specific url to the astrologynotes.org revision page retrieved. It is important to note the date and time the article was retrieved in order to cite the correct revision page.

If you are putting the copied article on the web, it has been common practice to simply link to both the GFDL and the original article. For example:

From the AstrologyNotes article "Sun in Aries", retrieved on August 8, 2005, 14:30 UTC. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.

If after copying you have broken links or you are printing the articles, you can either remove the link part entirely and just leave the visible text of the link, or you can fix the link to go to the appropriate article on AstrologyNotes. Images may be excluded if desired.

If you have added invariant sections or cover texts, etc. or if you are making more than 100 copies, additional restrictions may apply. Please see the full text of the GFDL for details.

Derived works

If you include a modified version of an AstrologyNotes article in a new publication, you must do the following.

You can modify the title and anything else in the article(s), but you must list yourself as the new publisher
License the derived work under the GFDL (include the license, copyright notice and license statement)
Credit the original authors. This requirement can be met either by explicitly listing the previous authors on the title page, or by providing a clearly visible link to the list of authors (this can be done by linking to the specific revision page).
Provide access to the revision history and a "transparent copy" of both the original material and the new work (section 4J). A "transparent copy" could include ascii text, the html web pages, xml feed, pdf documents, etc.

NOTE: Most of the requirements above can be met by either a link to the specific article revision (found in the page history section), or a link to the article plus a retrieval date (and time if more than one revision is made on that date). For example:

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the AstrologyNotes article "Sun in Aries", retrieved on August 8, 2005, 14:30 UTC.

If you copied numerous articles, a single link to the AstrologyNotes website followed by a list of each article name and its revision date for the original article used should also fit the above requirements for authorship and transparent copies.

You can aggregate articles from AstrologyNotes with other documents which are not under the GFDL license, you just have to clearly specify which is which in your copyright notice. If you have added invariant sections or cover texts, etc. additional restrictions may apply. Please see the full text of the GFDL for details.