Copyright
All content submitted to wiki.debian.org after 24 July 2025 00:00 UTC is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license unless otherwise noted.
A copy of the license can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
See here for information about older content.
Content on this wiki is subject to disclaimers.
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1. Guidelines
What follows is our interpretation of the CC BY-SA 4.0 with regards to the rights and responsibilities of users and contributors.
1.1. Contributors' rights and obligations
By submitting text directly to the Debian Wiki, you are licensing it to the public under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Content other than text (i.e. media) may be submitted under any license compliant with the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG), which generally should allow unrestricted re-use and re-distribution.
Never submit materials that infringe on the copyright of others.
If you want to copy or import text from elsewhere, you can only do so if it is available under terms that are compatible with the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Copyright is never transferred to the Debian Wiki or the Debian Project. Rather, you retain copyright to materials, both text and media, you contribute to the Debian Wiki. You can later re-publish and re-license your content in any way you like, but you cannot revoke or alter the license for copies of materials you place here. These copies will remain so licensed until they enter the public domain.
1.2. Re-use of content
Attribution: To re-distribute content from the Debian-Wiki, you must provide attribution using one of the following methods:
- Include a hyperlink or URL to the page(s) you are re-using.
- Include a hyperlink or URL to a stable mirror of the content that credits authors in a manner equivalent to credit given on this wiki.
- Include a list of all the authors. (Authors of very small or irrelevant contributions to the page(s) as a whole can be excluded from such a list.)
Share Alike: Any modifications or additions to the content you re-use must also be licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license or other compatible license.
Indicate changes: If you make modifications or additions to work from the wiki, you must reasonably indicate that the original content has been modified. On the wiki itself, page edit history is sufficient to indicate this.
Licensing notice: Every reproduction of wiki content, whether original or modified, must be accompanied by a license notice stating that the work is released under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. It is also recommended to provide a hyperlink or URL to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.
1.3. Scraping content for training data
Use of content on this wiki as training data for generative artificial intelligence without attribution and proper compliance with the terms of the CC BY-SA 4.0 license is not "fair use". The content on this wiki must be attributed to its authors as per the terms of the license.
2. General disclaimer
THE DEBIAN WIKI MAKES NO GUARANTEE OF VALIDITY. The Debian Wiki is a collaboratively maintained resource that any user can contribute to. There is no guarantee from the Debian Wiki of the accuracy or validity of content found here.
None of the wiki contributors, administrators or anyone else connected with the Debian Wiki or Debian Project in any way whatsoever can be held responsible for inaccurate content on this wiki or for your use of information in or linked from these pages.
There is no agreement or understanding between you and the Debian Wiki with regards to how you use or modify content here except for the Creative Commons Attribution ?ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
Any trademarks, service marks, collective marks, design rights, or similar rights that are mentioned, used, or cited on this wiki are the property of their respective owners. Unless otherwise stated, the Debian Wiki is neither endorsed by, nor affiliated with, any of the holders of any such rights, and as such, the Debian Wiki cannot grant any rights to use any otherwise protected materials.
3. Older content
Older content does not have a clear license, unless the page explicitly notes the license under which it is distributed. There is an ongoing effort to relicense older contributions to the new CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
(This page used to contain the below content.)
DebianWiki is NOT licensed under GFDL.
See DebianWikiIsNotGFDL and DebianWiki/LicencingTerms for discussion
4. Acknowledgements
Licensing decisions were a result of consensus reached through discussions on the debian-wiki mailing list and #debian-wiki IRC channel on the OFTC network.
This page is inspired by Wikipedia's copyright guidelines.