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Wikipedia uses a burdensome and complex system of copyrights, including statements like "any page which does not incorporate text that is exclusively available under the CC-BY-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike) license or a CC-BY-SA-compatible license is also available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License" (GFDL).<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reusing_Wikipedia_content</ref>  Wikipedia uses a byzantine system of rules -- as one might expect from its predominantly liberal editors.  Authors always remain free to copy their own work, but cannot copy work that has been edited by others unless they comply fully with the requirements of CC-BY-SA.<ref>For articles with no edits after 2009, anyone who wishes to reuse Wikipedia content ''may'' instead follow the terms of the GFDL.</ref>

Wikipedia uses a burdensome and complex system of copyrights, including statements like "any page which does not incorporate text that is exclusively available under the CC-BY-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike) license or a CC-BY-SA-compatible license is also available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License" (GFDL).<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reusing_Wikipedia_content</ref>  Wikipedia uses a byzantine system of rules -- as one might expect from its predominantly liberal editors.  Authors always remain free to copy their own work, but cannot copy the contributions of others unless they comply fully with the requirements of CC-BY-SA.<ref>For articles with no edits after 2009, anyone who wishes to reuse Wikipedia content ''may'' instead follow the terms of the GFDL.</ref>

The basic requirements of the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license are the following:

The basic requirements of the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license are the following: