The Open Copyright for the Meyda Online Web Site

The licensing for the Meyda Online Web site has changed as of 21 February 2005. It was formerly licensed under the GNU General Public License. Now it is dual licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and the Creative Commons schemes. Unless indicated otherwise, the materials on this Web site are covered by these licenses.

Note: I was using the popular term "copyleft", a play on "copyright" for a while. I have switched to "open copyright" term to avoid readers interpreting the "left" as a distinct political statement.

The GNU Free Documentation License for the Meyda Online Site Short Text

Copyright (c) 2001-2005 J.D. Abolins
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, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License" (Text file of the GFDL)

The Creative Commons Provisions

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305, USA.

Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0

You are free:

  • to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
  • to make derivative works

Under the following conditions:
by: Attribution. You must give the original author credit.
nc: Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.

  • For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work.
  • Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.

Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above.

This is a human-readable summary of the Legal Code (the full license).

 

Why These Approaches?

The reason for this status of the Meyda Online Web site is to allow people to use the information without having it locked by one party. This open copyright/copyleft applies , under specifically noted otherwise for a particular item, solely to the materials written by J.D. Abolins for this site and for the compilation of the site.. Any other materials, such as those quoted on this site or linked to by this sites, are covered by whatever copyright status they originally had.

For more info about copyleft of non-software material, see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/nonsoftware-copyleft.html

For the general philosophy of the Creative Commons, see http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/

J.D. Abolins <jabolins@meydaonline.com>