Ads are perfectly fine. Pretty much as long as you give us the credit line, you can do whatever you want with it (or as http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ puts it, you are free to share, transmit, re-use, modify, or adapt, even in a commercial manner, as long as attribution is provided).
cheers. -bawolff On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Gianni Sabbione <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you Bawolff! I will be supporting it via ads, is there any problem > with that? > > Regards, > Juan > > ----- Mensaje original ----- > Fecha: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 20:55:35 -0400 > De: "bawolff" <[email protected]> > Para: "Wikinews mailing list" <[email protected]> > Asunto: Re: [Wikinews-l] News sharing > Copia: [email protected] > > Not only is it ok, its encouraged. All you have to do, is for anything > that you add which is based on something from wikinews, at the end of > the article, add a line like: > > This article is based on the Wikinews article "<article title at > wikinews>" which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution > 2.5 license > > And have the word Wikinews linked to http://en.wikinews.org , have > "<article title at wikinews>" linked to the specific article on > wikinews, and Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license linked to > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ > > > Please also note that well the text of the article is licensed under > the cc-by 2.5, images typically are not. Before copying an image, you > should check its copyright status (click on the image in question). > Typically you can copy the images as well, but sometimes they require > different attributions. > > Cheers, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. > -- > - Bawolff > Caution: The mass of this product contains the energy equivalent of 85 > million tons of TNT per net ounce of weight. > > p.s. I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice. If you need legal > advice you should ask a lawyer. There is always the possibility I am > incorrect in my understanding of how the world works, and could be > wrong. > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Gianni Sabbione <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hello, I am opening a free news service website and I want to add some >> news >> from Wikinews. I have read that it can be done via "Creative Commons" >> licensing, is it OK? >> >> Thanks a lot in advance, >> Juan >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikinews-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l >> >> _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
