Wikipedia and copyright[edit]

Control copyright icon Hello -stk, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to General Transit Feed Specification has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 14:15, 22 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Diannaa: thanks for checking my contribution for copyright violations. I should have made expressively clear in the summary that I am the author of the referenced document (my diploma thesis), or that it was published under a compatible license as mentioned in Wikipedia:Copying_text_from_other_sources#But_surely_I_can_copy_from_this.3F (CC-BY). Did I miss anything special in particular that still rules out using the text portions within Wikipedia? If not, I'd really appreciate to have the portions included within the relevant Wikipedia article. --stk (talk) 14:27, 22 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
If own the copyright to the source document, it's possible to release the material under a compatible license. You need to get an OTRS ticket in place on the article. There's instructions at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials and a sample permission email at WP:consent. — Diannaa (talk) 14:33, 22 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Diannaa: I must confess I am a bit confused. The source PDF states on page 4 it is released under a Creative Commons Attribution License. Do I have to explicitly re-state this (or any other) license for Wikipedia? --stk (talk) 14:41, 22 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, I did not notice that. The way to do it is to provide attribution by mentioning on the article itself that the article contains excerpts from material released under a compatible license. I will do that right now, and you need to do it yourself in the future when quoting from licensed works. — Diannaa (talk) 18:53, 22 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, it took me a while to understand the necessary templates – seeing it being used on the page is a great help :) --stk (talk) 19:14, 22 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]