Talk:Mountain Jews/permission

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Hi.

I'm very sorry to bother you about something that might seem quite trivial: I recently came across an article on Wikipedia, Mountain Jews. Apparently, you had given permission to use your text (http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/mountain_jews.shtml) (and, indeed, apparently, the whole book) on Wikipedia. Unfortunately, the copyright laws that surround wikipedia are necessarily very strict, in order to avoid even the threat of lawsuits. Please see Copyrights for Wikipedia's policy on content copyrights.

Because Wikipedia licenses _all_ of its text under the GFDL (see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), we need explicit permission from you that the text is licensed under the GFDL. I was wondering if you could clarify your position on the copyright status of the text, including whether you give the right to Wikipedia to relicense it under the GFDL. If you do, we will of course continue to cite http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/mountain_jews.shtml as the primary source, so long as it remains so. Relicensing permission is important because your website states: "no part of this book may be reproduced without explicit permission from the authors (send a letter to the webmaster)."

Please don't hesitate to contact me via email if you have any questions, and please note that more on this issue can be found at the article's talk page, accessible here: Talk:Mountain Jews (the relevant section is at the top). When you reply, if you decide that Wikipedia can license the text under the GFDL, I'd be very grateful if you could copy ("CC") your email to: permissions@wikimedia.org.

Many thanks for your understanding.

Storkk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Storkk

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