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== Page text ==
== Page text ==
The text of SmashWiki is copyrighted (automatically, under the [[wikipedia:Berne Convention|Berne Convention]]) by SmashWiki editors and contributors and is formally licensed to the public under one or several licenses. SmashWiki's text is co-licensed under the [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported] (CC-BY-SA) license, and in some cases, the [https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3.en.html GNU Free Documentation License] (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts). Some text has been imported only under CC-BY-SA and CC-BY-SA-compatible license and cannot be reused under GFDL; such text will be identified either on the page footer, in the page history, or the discussion page of the article that utilizes the text.
The text of SmashWiki is copyrighted (automatically, under the [[wikipedia:Berne Convention|Berne Convention]]) by SmashWiki editors and contributors and is formally licensed to the public under one or several licenses. SmashWiki's text is co-licensed under the [[wikipedia:Creative Commons|Creative Commons]] [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported] (CC-BY-SA) license, and in some cases, the [https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3.en.html GNU Free Documentation License] (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts). Some text has been imported only under CC-BY-SA and CC-BY-SA-compatible license and cannot be reused under GFDL; such text will be identified either on the page footer, in the page history, or the discussion page of the article that utilizes the text.


The licenses SmashWiki uses grant free access to our content in the same sense that free software is licensed freely. SmashWiki content can be copied, modified, and redistributed ''if and only if'' the copied version is made available on the same terms to others and acknowledgment of the authors of the SmashWiki article used is included (a link back to the article is generally thought to satisfy the attribution requirement). Copied SmashWiki content will therefore remain ''free'' under appropriate license and can continue to be used by anyone subject to certain restrictions, most of which aim to ensure that freedom. This principle is known as [[wikipedia:Copyleft|copyleft]], in contrast to typical copyright licenses.
The licenses SmashWiki uses grant free access to our content in the same sense that free software is licensed freely. SmashWiki content can be copied, modified, and redistributed ''if and only if'' the copied version is made available on the same terms to others and acknowledgment of the authors of the SmashWiki article used is included (a link back to the article is generally thought to satisfy the attribution requirement). Copied SmashWiki content will therefore remain ''free'' under appropriate license and can continue to be used by anyone subject to certain restrictions, most of which aim to ensure that freedom. This principle is known as [[wikipedia:Copyleft|copyleft]], in contrast to typical copyright licenses.