User talk:Bykgardner

Drawdown card
Hello, Bykgardner. I noticed you have contributed to the Drawdown card article. Unfortunately, it appears that the text in the article has been taken directly from http://www.byk.com/instruments/applications/12_1_US.php with no evidence that the source page has released the text into the public domain, under the GFDL, or under a GFDL-compatible license. The byk.com legal page seems to indicate that the content on its site is not freely licensed: "Duplication, distribution, alteration or alternative use is not permitted." (Please see Copyrights for more information.) As it stands, therefore, the Drawdown card article seems to be a copyright violation, and it is likely to be deleted soon unless this problem is fixed.

One way to fix this problem is to rewrite the article so that it does not use phrases and sentences taken from this external site. Another way to fix the problem is to provide evidence that the source page at byk.com is willing to release this text into the public domain or under a license compatible with the GFDL. If this is the way you want to go (your username leads me to suspect you may have a connection to byk.com), the best thing to do is to get an explicit statement posted on byk.com that states that the relevant text has been released under the GNU Free Documentation License (or another compatible license). In particular, byk.com must agree that anyone can use, distribute, or modify the text for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial; otherwise the text is not licensed freely enough to be used on Wikipedia.

Please let me know if I can help you or if you have any questions. —Bkell (talk) 04:54, 10 January 2009 (UTC)