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-Since MediaWiki is gracious enough to not impose any licensing regarding the content on our wiki, we too do not seek to restrict, confine, claim nor impose any licensing on your submitted content.
+One of the goals of Linguifex is to be a '''''smooth, simple, and useful''''' website. Thus, we like to keep the legalese to a minimum. When you are on Linguifex, please be aware of the following conditions regarding copyright.
-== duae leges collegii linguificum ==
+'''I.''' Unless otherwise stated, the intellectual properties ''described'' by the text and images on this website remain the property of their respective creators.
-Linguifex is all about being simple, so here goes.
-'''1.''' Everything contributed to Linguifex still remains your intellectual property. That is, by publishing information about your constructed language you do not give away any copyrights whatsoever.
-'''2.''' Do not upload things of which you are not the rights-holder.
+'''II.''' Do not upload or add things of which you are not the rights-holder nor have permission to distribute.
 == Regarding content imported from Wikipedia ==
+Content imported from Wikipedia is licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC-BY-SA-3.0] according to Wikipedia's notice that their "
+''Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.''"
-Content imported from Wikipedia is licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC-BY-SA-3.0] according to Wikipedia's notice that their "
+This means that unlike the rest of the site content which may or may not be under other licenses the Wikipedia content is always under the CC-BY-SA-3.0 licence, since ''Licensees may distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs the original work.''.
-''Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.''" This means that unlike the rest of the material ''Licensees may distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs the original work.''