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Much of this information seems to come from Wikipedia, so isn this site automatically covered by the GFDL and/or CC-SA licences?

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Much of this information seems to come from Wikipedia, so isn this site automatically covered by the GFDL and/or CC-SA licences?

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Good question! No. This site repeats a lot of information from Wikipedia, but information can’t be copyrighted. Text can be, but we don’t copy text from Wikipedia (or, generally, from anywhere else), just information. Some of the images also appear in Wikimedia Commons, or are based on images there. Again, no problem, because we didn’t copy them from there. Rather, we contributed them to both places! And of course, if you want to reuse any of this material in Wikipedia, there’s no problem at all at this end. Copy the information, it’s your right. Copy the text too for all we care, but in order to avoid accusations of copyvios at the Wikipedia end, maybe better not. Oh, and remember to cite your sources. See citing TOEOT in Wikipedia for our spin on this. And much the same for photos… versions of them are in Wikimedia Commons anyway, so getting them from there is probably best.

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