That reads well! On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Dane Springmeyer <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hey James, > great work. I took a crack at making the text a bit more unique from the > FAQ (and found some errors of mine in the process! ya right mapnik works on > PPC Macs :) ), and took the liberty to delete the warning, since my sense is > anyone can remove that other than creator of the page (thanks for > spearheading!). > > So, looks great, let's just continue to add to it/improve as a group and we > should be rolling... > > Logo seems reasonable too. Perhaps we need to state the licensing on the > logo (which I'm not sure about) somewhere on the Mapnik.org site.... > > Dane > > > On Jun 20, 2009, at 5:11 PM, James McManus wrote: > > I created an initial wikipedia article, with much of the content coming > from the mapnik faq page. Wikipedia raised a red flag because of concerns > of plagiarism, and asked me to get permission from the authors, or it will > be quickly deleted. > > It went on the explain that text imported from other sites into Wikipedia > articles must be licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons > Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported > License<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License>(CC-BY-SA) > (CC-BY-SA compatible licenses are also accepted, as, of course, > is release into public domain). When asking for permission, you should > explain that this means that > > 1. The text may be freely redistributed and used. > 2. It may be freely modified, and modified versions may also be freely > redistributed and used. > 3. In all cases, CC-BY-SA requires proper attribution of the author(s). > 4. CC-BY-SA allows commercial re-uses provided such re-use is also > under CC-BY-SA. > > By the way I plagiarised the above information from Wikipedia. > > If you do not want me to use this text, let me know and I'll delete the > article. If it is okay let me know and I'll take the next step of uploading > the text to Commons. > > Do you want to show the mapnik logo in the article. If so I need to follow > the same procedure to use the image. > > Jim > > On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 4:48 PM, James McManus <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi Dane, >> >> I'll give it a go. >> >> Jim >> >> >> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Dane Springmeyer <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Want to help out the Mapnik project? >>> >>> Help get the Mapnik Wikipedia entry started: >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapnik >>> http://trac.mapnik.org/ticket/194 >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mapnik-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users >>> >> >> > >
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