Botwiki:License

Contributions to this project may be under various licenses. Contributions must be contributed by the author or a licensee^[1], or must be content in the public domain in both the United States and the European Union^[2]. Contributions under the theory of "Fair Use" are prohibited as that theory is limited to the United States.

Contents 1 Basic Rule 2 Not so basic rules 2.1 Some Definitions 3 Other licenses 4 Notes

Basic Rule

Unless otherwise stated:

• Code is contributed under the Expat license (also known ambiguously as the "MIT license")

• Text is contributed under the CC-BY-SA license.

• All code should state the license even if it's the Expat license. Code contributed under the "MIT license" is licensed under the Expat license.^[3]

Not so basic rules

• Prior to 9 December 2011, the site license was the GNU Free Document License (GFDL) version 1.2. Content contributed under other licenses was allowed but had to be specifically stated.
• Text contributed prior to 9 December 2011 is licensed under the GFDL v.1.2.
• Code not referring to a license, contributed before 9 December 2011, may technically be licensed under the GFDL v.1.2, a very awkward license for software.
• Code frequently cites the "MIT license", this is ambiguous and may refer to many different licenses but frequently refers to the Expat license or the X11 license.

Some Definitions

• Code means source code but also includes compiled software, scripts (such as javascript), instructions to webrowsers (such as css, html, and wikimarkup (e.g. template code)) and similar things, but not images or documents (formatted text).

• Text means things such as manuals, guides, explanations of code (not including comments intended to remain in the code at compile time (or, in the case of precompiled programs and scripts, run time)), discussion (talk space) contributions, and contributions to the navigational, organizational, or social, aspects of the project.

Other licenses

• Code may be contributed under any GNU Public License (GPL) compatible license, or be placed in the public domain.

• Text may be contributed under the CC-BY-SA or any greater license (that is, any license that provides more rights and does not limit any of the CC-BY-SA rights), or be placed in the public domain.

• Attempting to retain more rights than are retained under the licenses as set forth above will result in the license stated in the Basic Rule being conveyed.

Notes

1. ↑ if content is licensed under a creative commons, GNU Public License, or other free license, then everyone is a licensee and may contribute the work here; however, even if the license does not require it (or the work is in the public domain) the author should be credited
2. ↑ The servers for this wiki are in the State of Utah; however, the wiki is owned an operated by residents of EU member nations
3. ↑ Code contributed to this site by a person other than the author pursuant to it being licensed under the "MIT license" at another site, must be investigated before it can be certain that it is under the Expat license, as the term "MIT license" is ambiguous. However, code contributed by the author to this cite which references the "MIT license" will be deemed to be licensed under the unambiguous Expat license. It is important to note whether the contributor on this site is the author.