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[[AboutUs]] content is freely available for reuse under the following licenses:
 
[[AboutUs]] content is freely available for reuse under the following licenses:
* [[GNU.org|GNU's]] [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html GFDL 1.2], the license [[Wikipedia]] is released under.  
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* [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html GFDL 1.2], the license [[Wikipedia]] was released under.
* [[CreativeCommons.org|Creative Commons]] [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License].
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* [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License].
  
 
In simpler times villagers shared common grounds for grazing.  Today we share a commons of culture and knowledge.  Different parts of the commons are restricted in different ways.  [[AboutUs]] is restricted only in ways that protect your freedoms to use and reuse the content you and other members of the [[AboutUs]] community create.
 
In simpler times villagers shared common grounds for grazing.  Today we share a commons of culture and knowledge.  Different parts of the commons are restricted in different ways.  [[AboutUs]] is restricted only in ways that protect your freedoms to use and reuse the content you and other members of the [[AboutUs]] community create.
  
Please feel warmly welcomed to use content from [[AboutUs.org|www.AboutUs.org]] in your own creative works!  We even allow our content to be used for commercial purposes.  If you want, you can create an exact copy of [[AboutUs]].  Better yet, you can create an improved version of [[AboutUs]].  When you copy, distribute and/or transmit content from [[AboutUs]] you must do the following:
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Please feel warmly welcomed to use content from [[AboutUs.org|www.AboutUs.org]] in your own creative works!  We even allow our content to be used for commercial purposes.  If you want, you can create an exact copy of [[AboutUs]].  Better yet, you can create an improved version of [[AboutUs]].  '''When you copy, distribute and/or transmit content from [[AboutUs]] you must do the following:'''
# Let others know where you got the content from (a link to http://www.AboutUs.org is fine for this purpose),  
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# Let others know where you got the content from (a link to http://www.AboutUs.org is fine for this purpose),
# License any modifications you make to the content under a license that preserves the same freedoms (e.g., [[GNU.org|GNU's]] [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html GFDL 1.2] or [[CreativeCommons.org|Creative Commons]] [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC By-SA]).
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# License any modifications you make to the content under a license that preserves the same freedoms (e.g., [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html GFDL 1.2] or [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC By-SA]).
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For background information about CC By-SA see [[CreativeCommons.org]] and for background about GFLD 1.2 see [[GNU.org]].
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AboutUs content is freely available for reuse under the following licenses:

In simpler times villagers shared common grounds for grazing. Today we share a commons of culture and knowledge. Different parts of the commons are restricted in different ways. AboutUs is restricted only in ways that protect your freedoms to use and reuse the content you and other members of the AboutUs community create.

Please feel warmly welcomed to use content from www.AboutUs.org in your own creative works! We even allow our content to be used for commercial purposes. If you want, you can create an exact copy of AboutUs. Better yet, you can create an improved version of AboutUs. When you copy, distribute and/or transmit content from AboutUs you must do the following:

  1. Let others know where you got the content from (a link to http://www.AboutUs.org is fine for this purpose),
  2. License any modifications you make to the content under a license that preserves the same freedoms (e.g., GFDL 1.2 or CC By-SA).

For background information about CC By-SA see CreativeCommons.org and for background about GFLD 1.2 see GNU.org.



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