Talk:John Danvers

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Copyleft problems[edit]

I have reverted this article to an earlier one which does not rely on text copied from the British Civil War website.

This is because Wikipedia Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License allows commercial distribution, but the current licence used by the British Civil War website is Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which places a restriction "Non-Commercial — You may not use this work for commercial purposes." which the Wikipedia license does not.

Providing the requirements of the Terms of Use and WP:plagiarism are met there is no reason why information from the British Civil War website can not be summarised and and cited like any other copyright text. But it can not be copied under its copyleft licence into Wikipedia articles because its licence is more restrictive than the Wikipedia licence. --PBS (talk) 16:01, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Danvers and the Virginia Company[edit]

In the archives of the company, Vol II, p 495, 2d paragraph mentions that the Royal Council for Virginia has seized the company's papers. ^[1]. The date of this mention being novembre 19, 1623, the chronology ("and in 1624 he learned that the government were contemplating a seizure of the papers of the Virginia Company") is not accurate

Sébastien bauer (talk) 21:30, 26 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ https://archive.org/stream/recordsofvirgini02virg#page/n519/mode/2up

I have tried to investigate the chronology. The Virginia Company was dissolved by King James I in May 1624, the wikipedia article does not mention the planned seizure and the copying. 1624 was also the last year of life of the Earl of Southampton who died in November 1624, whose wikipedia article likewise does not mention this activity.Cloptonson (talk) 09:05, 30 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttps://archive.org/stream/recordsofvirgini02virg#page/n519/mode/2up

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