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Copyleft problem

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I have deleted the article and recreated it without commercial copyright problems.

Because Wikipedia Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License allows commercial distribution, but the current licence used by the British Civil War website is Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which places a restriction "Non-Commercial — You may not use this work for commercial purposes." which the Wikipedia license does not.

Providing the requirements of the Terms of Use and WP:plagiarism are met there is no reason why information from the British Civil War website can not be summarised and and cited like any other copyright text. But it can not be copied under its copyleft licence into Wikipedia articles because its licence is more restrictive than the Wikipedia licence.

The text I put back was in the article before but it was all text which I added in the case of "each governed by a Major-General whom answered to the Lord Protector." a paraphrase of one from the Plant article. --PBS (talk) 14:49, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]