User talk:Clpo13

Please do not copy and paste material from Wikipedia. Aside from wanting our users to contribute original material, Memory Alpha operates under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial license, which is incompatible with Wikipedia's GFDL license - any such additions violate that license. Thank you. -- Michael Warren | Talk 21:17, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, I didn't realize they had incompatible licenses. Sorry. --Clpo13 02:45, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
 * In a nutshell, the reason they're incompatible is that, while both allow for free use, the CCL (ours) doesn't allow for commercial use, where the GFDL (Wikipedia and most of the other Wikia wikis) does allow for commercial use. We have to make the distinction since we draw so heavily from copyrighted material here (mostly from Paramount, but from others also). When people create articles under the GFDL, they're saying that the material can be reused freely... so we can't take that and reuse it but tell people that they can reuse it, but not commercially, since that would (potentiall) be against the intent of the original author(s). Conversely, they can't use our material because reposting under the GFDL would bypass the restrictions of the non-commercial clause of the CCL. I know, awfully big nutshell. :) -- Renegade54 03:03, 18 March 2008 (UTC)