Talk:Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Permission granted by the CVSS SIG Chair Gavin Reid and sent to permissions@wikimedia.org Can you please re-instate the page.
From: Gavin Reid (gavreid) Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:43 AM To: Gavin Reid (gavreid) Cc: 'permissions@wikimedia.org' Subject: RE: use of CVSS work on Wiki
I agree that you can use my work
Gavin Reid
From: Gavin Reid (gavreid) Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:39 AM To: Gavin Reid (gavreid) Cc: permissions@wikimedia.org Subject: use of CVSS work on Wiki
Dear Gavin Reid,
I wanted to let you know that I enjoyed your CVSS articles at www.first.org/cvss, which I found while researching for the free online encyclopedia "Wikipedia"; I thought that your information on the subject might be worthy of inclusion in our living and growing document.
Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org) is an encyclopedia that is collaboratively edited by volunteers from around the world. Our goal is to create a comprehensive knowledge base that is not only available at no charge, but is also freely distributed. It is one of many projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.
I am seeking your permission to use your text either directly, or as a reference for my original writing on the subject. I'd like to include your materials in this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cvss . (To get a sense of the freedom of Wikipedia, you yourself can edit this page without registration, right now.)
We can only use your material if you are willing to grant permission for it to be used under terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. This means that although you retain the copyright and authorship of your own work, you are granting permission for all others (not just Wikipedia) to use, copy, and share your materials freely—and even potentially use them commercially—as long as they do not try to claim the copyright themselves, or try to prevent others from using or copying them freely. You can read this license in full at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GFDL.
Please note that your contributions may not remain intact as submitted; this license, and the collaborative nature of our project, also entitles others to edit, alter, and update them at will, i.e., to keep up with new information, or suit the text to a different purpose. However, the license also expressly protects authors "from being considered responsible for modifications made by others" while ensuring that those authors get credit for their work. There is more information on our copyright policy at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights
We choose the GNU FDL license because it is the best available tool for ensuring that our encyclopedia is and can remain free for all to use, and for providing credit to everyone who donates text and images. It may or may not be compatible with your goals in creating the materials available on your website -- that is your choice. Please be assured that if you do not grant permission, your <copyrighted?/original?> materials will not be used at Wikipedia; we have a very strict policy against copyright violations.
If you do agree to grant permission, we will credit you for your work in the resulting article's references section, by stating it was based on your work and is used with your permission, and by providing a link back to your website.
You are obviously an expert in your field, and we invite your active collaboration in writing and editing articles on this subject and any others that might be attractive to you. If you are interested, please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Welcome%2C_newcomers for more information!
Thank you for your time; we look forward to your reply.
Kindly,