Wikipedia:Declaration of consent for all enquiries
Type of license
In the above example, the license granted is dual: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license and GNU Free Documentation license. Under some circumstances you may choose another license and substitute its exact name in the statement of permission:
- For images, you may choose at least one type of license from our list of free licenses. All licenses we use have similar intentions. You must state the specific license: CC-BY-SA version 3.0 or Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 are acceptably specific, just stating Creative Commons license or Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (without the version number) is not. You are not required to use dual licenses for images.
- For text, you must select a license compatible with Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (such as those listed in our copyright FAQ). It is strongly recommended that you use that particular license, as subtle nuances in other licenses may make them incompatible and create problems with your consent. If you are the contributor of the text to Wikipedia and the sole copyright holder, you must co-license the text under the GNU Free Documentation License. Otherwise, the dual license may be omitted.
- IMPORTANT: YOU MUST STATE A TYPE OF LICENSE WE CAN USE; OTHERWISE THIS DECLARATION IS NOT VALID.
Other fields
- The other fields shown in bold and upper-case need to be filled out if applicable. This also helps clarify to the owner what they are agreeing to. If they are not filled out, the declaration and license will NOT be accepted. Details that you might need to include are:
- Name of the work
- Link to identify the work, if not included in the email
- Your name and your authority to sign the declaration (i.e. that you are the copyright holder, a director, their appointed representative, etc).
- Name and details of copyright holder, if different or you are acting on someone else's behalf
- Date of signing
Identification of material
- Make sure to include the URL of the image or text if the work itself is not attached to your email. If the work is not online, you may wish to give ISBN or other details that would identify the specific work.
Email address
- Email the permission emails to our email response team ("VRT") at permissions-en@wikimedia.org (if you are releasing text) or permissions-commons@wikimedia.org (if you are releasing images, audio, or video). Do not send the email to both addresses; this will not make things any faster and will create extra work for volunteers. Please send a copy to the person (if any) you were previously in touch with so they know about it.
- The email you send must come from an email address that we can recognize. For instance, if you are releasing a website or images from a website, your email address must be associated with the website or listed on the contact page of the website. If you are releasing a work that is not available online, you may be required to provide proof of your identity. If you are releasing a work where you are acting on the copyright holder's behalf, you may be required to provide proof of authorization to work on the copyright holder's behalf.
Thank you!