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Other than the changes below, the Terms of Use will not change.

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a. Text to which you hold the copyright: When you submit text to which you hold the copyright, you agree to license it under:
  1. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (“CC BY-SA”), and
  2. GNU Free Documentation License (“GFDL”) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).

(Re-users may comply with either license or both.)

a. Text to which you hold the copyright: When you submit text to which you hold the copyright, you agree to license it under:
  1. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (“CC BY-SA 4.0”), and
  2. GNU Free Documentation License (“GFDL”) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).

(Re-users may comply with either license or both.)

The only exception is if the Project edition or feature requires a different license. In that case, you agree to license any text you contribute under that particular license. For example, at the publication of this version of the Terms of Use, English Wikinews mandates that all text content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic License (CC BY 2.5) and does not require a dual license with GFDL.

Please note that these licenses do allow commercial uses of your contributions, as long as such uses are compliant with the terms.

The only exception is if the Project edition or feature requires a different license. In that case, you agree to license any text you contribute under that particular license.

Please note that these licenses do allow commercial uses of your contributions, as long as such uses are compliant with the terms.

Where you own Sui Generis Database Rights covered by CC BY-SA 4.0, you waive these rights. As an example, this means facts you contribute to the projects may be reused freely without attribution.

c. Importing text: You may import text that you have found elsewhere or that you have co-authored with others, but in such case you warrant that the text is available under terms that are compatible with the CC BY-SA 3.0 license (or, as explained above, another license when exceptionally required by the Project edition or feature)("CC BY-SA"). Content available only under GFDL is not permissible. c. Importing text: You may import text that you have found elsewhere or that you have co-authored with others, but in such case you warrant that the text is available under terms that are compatible with CC BY-SA (or, as explained above, another license when exceptionally required by the Project edition or feature). For a list of compatible licenses, see Creative Commons. You may not import content that is available solely under GFDL.
h. Modifications or additions to material that you re-use: When modifying or making additions to text that you have obtained from a Project website, you agree to license the modified or added content under CC BY-SA 3.0 or later (or, as explained above, another license when exceptionally required by the specific Project edition or feature). h. Modifications or additions to material that you re-use: When modifying or making additions to text that you have obtained from a Project website, you agree to license the modified or added content under CC BY-SA 4.0 or later (or, as explained above, another license when exceptionally required by the specific Project edition or feature).
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