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'''Important note:''' ''MyWikiBiz does not own copyright on MyWikiBiz '''non-[[Directory namespace|Directory]]''' '''("ND")''' article texts and illustrations. It is therefore useless to email our contact addresses asking for permission to reproduce content.''
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'''Important note:''' ''Individual authors of [[Directory namespace|Directory]] page content are solely responsible for their copyright and licensing considerations. The content that is '''NOT''' contained in MyWikiBiz's '''[[Help:Directory namespace|Directory]]''' listings is licensed to the public under the '''[[GNU Free Documentation License]]''' (GFDL).  MyWikiBiz owns copyright on very few article texts and illustrations -- generally, only those pages that are specific to the MyWikiBiz brand or operations. Therefore, it is likely unproductive to contact MyWikiBiz for permission to reproduce content you see here.  Rather, consult the '''authors''' of the page(s) you are assessing.''
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The license [[Directory:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] uses grants free access to our '''non-[[Help:Directory namespace|Directory]]''' content in the same sense as [[free software]] is licensed freely. This principle is known as '''[[copyleft]]'''. That is to say, MyWikiBiz '''ND''' content can be copied, modified, and redistributed ''so long as'' the new version grants the same freedoms to others and acknowledges the authors of the MyWikiBiz '''ND''' article used (a direct link back to the article satisfies our author credit requirement).  MyWikiBiz '''ND''' articles therefore will remain free forever and can be used by anybody subject to certain restrictions, most of which serve to ensure that freedom.
 
The license [[Directory:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] uses grants free access to our '''non-[[Help:Directory namespace|Directory]]''' content in the same sense as [[free software]] is licensed freely. This principle is known as '''[[copyleft]]'''. That is to say, MyWikiBiz '''ND''' content can be copied, modified, and redistributed ''so long as'' the new version grants the same freedoms to others and acknowledges the authors of the MyWikiBiz '''ND''' article used (a direct link back to the article satisfies our author credit requirement).  MyWikiBiz '''ND''' articles therefore will remain free forever and can be used by anybody subject to certain restrictions, most of which serve to ensure that freedom.
    
== Directory Space contributions ==
 
== Directory Space contributions ==
      
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By posting or distributing Content to or through the Site, unless we indicate  otherwise, you (a) grant MyWikiBiz and its affiliates a nonexclusive,  royalty-free, perpetual, transferable, irrevocable and fully sublicensable right  to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, distribute, publish, create  derivative works from and publicly display and perform such Content throughout  the world in any media, now known or hereafter devised; (b) grant MyWikiBiz  and its affiliates and sublicensees the right to use the name that you submit in  connection with such Content, if they choose; and (c) represent and warrant that  (i) you own and control all of the rights to the Content that you post or  otherwise distribute, or you otherwise have the lawful right to post and  distribute such Content to or through the Site; (ii) such Content is accurate  and not misleading; and (iii) use and posting or other transmission of such  Content does not violate these Site Terms and will not violate any rights of or  cause injury to any person or entity. You further grant MyWikiBiz the right to  pursue at law any person or entity that violates your or MyWikiBiz's rights in  the Content by a breach of these Site Terms.