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I will take a liberty to change the news text a bit.
 
I will take a liberty to change the news text a bit.
 
--[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 00:09, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 
--[[User:Sigurdas|Sigurdas]] 00:09, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
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: Yeah, thanks. I tried to find a way to express it as simple as possible without missing any important details. Looks like it didn't work ;) --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 08:04, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

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CC license

Refering to these news (1 July, 2009): http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Template:News&oldid=34249 Hitchwiki switched its licence to Creative Commons (CC-BY-SA). That basically means, we can now use content from many other wikis (Wikipedia, Wikitravel, Wikivoyage), but also from some other sites, i.e. OpenStreetMap and many images from flickr are CC. No, that's not what it really means. The subject of the license is the regulated (partly restricted) distribution of the information provided by the website the contect of which is under conditions of CC-BY-SA, - and it is not in any way appliable to the information provided on other websites no matter how similar they might be. So, a statement is a little bit misleading. Using the content of other sites (like mentioned above wiki sites) you will still need to attribute these texts/pictures to their authors - mere mentioning (by default) of the CC-BY-SA license is not enough. What good is that CC-BY-SA is now the common license between hitchwiki and the most common sites which are apparently being used a lot by hitchwiki users, and so no additional hassle is needed for pointing out the license if it already "fits" the license of the hitchwiki. BTW, PicasaWeb announced recently its launch of the Creative Commons search option - there aren't many CC pictures tagged "hitch hiking" yet (with availability of commercial use, the important feature of the free license) but it has a good potencial. I will take a liberty to change the news text a bit. --Sigurdas 00:09, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, thanks. I tried to find a way to express it as simple as possible without missing any important details. Looks like it didn't work ;) --MrTweek 08:04, 3 July 2009 (UTC)