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Wiktionary:Copyrights

The goal of Wiktionary is to develop a freely available international dictionary. The realities of modern copyright law demand that we pay attention to legal issues to ensure that our work can be made available, and to protect our project from legal liability. The original texts of Wiktionary entries are dual-licensed to the public under both the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). The full text of both licenses can be found at Wiktionary:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, as well as Wiktionary:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify the text of all Wiktionary entries under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, and the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. Essentially, this means that the entries will remain free forever and can be used by anybody subject to the restrictions mentioned below, which serve to ensure that freedom. Frequently, Wiktionary entries may include text, images, sounds, or other material from external sources with different copyright terms, and which is used with permission or under the "fair use" doctrine. In this case, the material will be identified as from an external source (in the entry, on the image description page, in the page's history, or on the talk page, as appropriate) and copyright holders of that material retain their rights. Quoting a sentence from a contemporary author to illustrate the use of a word is an important example of fair use, but properly identifying the source is still essential.