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I hereby grant all Wikipedia editors the right to place the material I have written that is linked to from http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/pages.html under GNU/FDL for inclusion in Wikipedia. Warning! This does not extend to any of the articles written by others (recognizable by having DG, GL or RH after the title). Only the work written by me (either having nothing or AE after the title) is usable as such; the others may not be used commercially. Andre Engels 04:33, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Use {{Discoverers Web}} to put an attribution line in an incorporated article. -- Taku 05:35, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)
The Pompeii and Masada galleries by Elizabeth E. Thomas and Nathan Srebro have been licensed under the FDL in private agreement with User:Eloquence. When using photos from these, please especially take care to add an FDL-compliant attribution notice like this: "Elizabeth Thomas, eli at eli-nati dot com, September 2002"
I have just put 10k+ photos under the FDL so they can be used here, I'm not going to have time to put many up here so if others want to do so please help your self :-) --ChrisCroome16:22, 8 August 2003 (UTC)[reply]
Dr Adam Carr has agreed to license his web site under the GFDL as long as "the source is credited and sourced". There are quite a few photos of various European historical sites there: http://www.adam-carr.net/pixtableindex.html. He gave permission on my talk page today. Alex756 06:06, 29 Setember 2003 (UTC)
Free Roleplaying Game Community (or FRPGC) is a resource listing pen-and-paper roleplaying games published under the GFDL or compatible licenses. It also works to publish its own RPG material under the GFDL.
The Association for Progressive Communications' "Participating With Safety; A series of briefings on information security and online safety for civil society organisations" at http://secdocs.net/manual/lp-sec/.
The owner of World Coin Gallery grants us full permission to use any coin images from his webpages. These images can be used for articles about coins. But some of the coins are commemorative and can be used for other things, such as Luis Frois. See User:Kingturtle/World Coin Gallery for more information and details
