User talk:KosslynLab

Welcome!
Hello, KosslynLab, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions; I hope you like it here and decide to stay. We're glad to have you in our community! Here are a few good links for newcomers:


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Happy editing!

-- Sango  123  18:00, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

P.S. Feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you need help with anything or simply wish to say hello. :)

re: GFDL
On Deletion review, you asked if an email will suffice to document the release of content under copyright. In general, yes it will. You should post that email to the relevant article's Talk page. (You can still find and edit the Talk page even if the article itself was deleted.) However, you should be very sure that the author knows that they are releasing the content under the Gnu Free Distribution License. This is much more permissive than just "publication on Wikipedia". You might want to talk to a lawyer if you want to understand all the gory details but in layman's terms, release under GFDL means you have no control over it anymore. Anyone can take the content or any subset of the content and use it for their own purposes. That includes unrestricted commercial re-use. Wikipedia does not allow conditional release. We're just not set up to handle permissions that come with strings attached.

If you and the copyright holders have carefully reviewed the GFDL and are willing to live with its rules, we welcome the content. Many of us are surprised, though, because publications similar to Nature have consistently refused up till now.

By the way, let me also welcome you to Wikipedia. Rossami (talk) 04:19, 5 December 2005 (UTC)