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'''Note on licenses:''' Please note that the GFDL is only for ''text documentations or other forms of text and their derivatives'', while While ''software and its derivatives'', text, and other types of works may use the GPL. The , the actual contents of Wikipedia are licensed under the GFDLCreative Commons, but the interface design of Wikipedia and all other portions of the MediaWiki software are licensed under the GPL.
Changed license to Creative Commons - its OK with David
This is a screenshot of a '''Wikipedia web page'''. Wikipedia text is licensed under the '''[[GNU Free Documentation License]]Creative Commons''' (GFDL). The MediaWiki software that runs Wikipedia is licensed under the '''[http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU General Public License]''' (GPL).
'''The Wikipedia logo (if it appears in this screenshot) has not been released under any free license.'''
As such, portions of this screenshot '''may be licensed under two separate licenses'''. The GPL and GFDL are not the same license; they are only connected through the Free Software Foundation, the creator of the licenses.
<noinclude>Copied and adapted from Wikimedia Commons</noinclude>
<noinclude>[[Category:Image copyright templates|Wikipedia-screenshot]]</noinclude>
