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A-1- All posts (in all of its electronic and non-electronic forms) and Ideas are copyrighted materials.
A-2- All posts (in all of its electronic and non-electronic forms) and Ideas are copylefted materials.
A-3- All materials existing in this weblog including text, photographs, and all forms of media are not 'ownable' unless indicated otherwise by a direct link or information leading to the original source. The information is provided freely (in both meanings: free of charge, free of restrictions) and will stay so!
A-4- All such copylefts are valid in the past, present and future. This means that in case of change of copyright policy, old materials will belong to the more liberal license terms. Obviously new materials will be treated as copyrighted with the most recent license terms.
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A-6- Note that some parts are copyrighted under different terms. These parts will be clearly labeled. Any parts referred to some source are automatically entitled under the terms of original author.
A-7- These terms apply to all variations and derivations of this copylefted materials.


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General Notice:
If you do not understand the meaning of copylefted materials, and\or free licenses please consider visiting:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft

A Quick Definition of Copylefting is:
Copyleft is a general method for making a program or other work free, and requiring all modified and extended versions of the program to be free as well.

To copyleft a program, we first state that it is copyrighted; then we add distribution terms, which are a legal instrument that gives everyone the rights to use, modify, and redistribute the program's code or any program derived from it but only if the distribution terms are unchanged. Thus, the code and the freedoms become legally inseparable.

Proprietary software developers use copyright to take away the users' freedom; we use copyright to guarantee their freedom. That's why we reverse the name, changing ``copyright'' into ``copyleft.''


Unofficial Notice:
Relating to the source of copylefted materials is not always obligatory, and it's not in this case. Yet it is flattering to see properly related materials being used. Relating to source is completely optional but encouraged.


PS: Parts of this page are copied, and modified from http://tololy.blogspot.com/2005/09/copyright-notice.html after the e-consent of the author.

This entry was first published on November 13th, 2005.