Just as the NC module, the No Derivatives (ND) module is also not permitted for Wiki- pedia articles. Wikipedia thrives from allowing its articles to be corrected, extended and edited by others. Therefore ND is not compatible with the Wikipedia concept.
ware documentation, hence it was too com- plicated and not ideally suited for Wikipedia. Nonetheless, the GFDL open content licenses did not have to be abandoned when Wikipedia was transitioning to a CC-BY-SA license. The old license is still used to avoid possible contra- dictions. Commercial use of content is explicit- ly permitted by both licenses. The Share Alike module ensures that content cannot be taken from the world-wide pool of freely accessible knowledge by editing and republishing, but that it remains a part of free knowledge and free culture. Attribution to the author is an important part of every CC license. This is true for Wikipedia authors as well. Since the encyclopedic entries were created by a multitude of authors in colla- boration, the attribution for Wikipedia articles should be the following: - through hyperlink (where possible) or URL to the Wikipedia article to which you contri- buted, - through hyperlink (where possible) or URL to an alternative, stable online copy that is free- ly accessible, which conforms with the license, and which provides credit to the authors in a manner equivalent to the credit given on the project website; or - through a list of all authors, but please note that any list of authors may be filtered to exclu- de very small or irrelevant contributions. Users should attribute in one of the following fashions ...
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