User:Nikola Smolenski/njegos.org
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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:58:47 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: Request for permission to use images from njegos.org From: "Aleksandar Rakovic" To: "Nikola Smolenski" Dear Mr Smolenski, You may use material from my website Njegos.org. Kindest regards, Aleksandar Rakovic Historian > Dear Mr. Rakovic, > > I am an editor of the Wikipedia (wikipedia.org), a multilingual project to > create a complete, accurate, and open-content encyclopedia. Volunteers > from > around the world collaboratively edit Wikipedia, which is one of many > projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation (wikimediafoundation.org). > We > depend on multimedia to clearly illustrate our articles. > > I enjoyed excellent images, music and texts at your website (njegos.org). > However, we can only use your material if you are willing to grant > permission > for it to be used under terms of the GNU Free Documentation License > (GNU-FDL, > or GFDL for short). This means that although you retain the copyright and > authorship of your own work, you are granting permission for others to > use, > copy, and share your materials freely, and even potentially use them > commercially, so long as they do not try to claim the copyright > themselves, > or try to prevent others from using or copying them freely (e.g., > "share-alike"). You can read this license in full at > wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text of the GFDL . Please do note that your > contributions may not remain intact as submitted; this license, as well as > the collaborative nature of our project, also entitles others to edit, > alter, > and update them at will, i.e., to keep up with new information, or suit > the > text to a different purpose. However, the license also expressly protects > authors "from being considered responsible for modifications made by > others." > > If you do agree to grant permission for use, we will credit you for your > work, > stating it was based on your work and is used with your permission, and by > providing a link back to your website. > > I hope you will consider accepting our request. > > Warmest regards, > Nikola Smolenski >