Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 09:52:45 -0400
From: ykleungn@netscape.net
To: "Robert Dodier" <robert_dodier@yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: Permission to copy text and images to Wikipedia?
Dear Mr. Robert Dodier,
Thanks for your email to me.
You can use my text and images to Wikipedia, but please indicate their
original sources too.
With best regards,
Y K Leung
Robert Dodier <robert_dodier@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Hello Y.K. Leung,
>
>Your web page (http://home.netvigator.com/~ykleungn) on
>Chinese Numismatics in Hong Kong is very interesting.
>I wonder if you will give permission for text and images
>from this web page to be copied to Wikipedia (http://wikipedia.org)
>and released under the GNU Free Documentation License?
>See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights for a
>discussion and a link to the GFDL license text.
>
>Naturally if you choose not to give your permission,
>I understand completely, and I will respect your decision.
>
>As it happens, someone else has already copied some text
>and images (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pataca) apparently
>without obtaining your permission to do so. If you choose
>not to give permission, I will have the copied text and
>images removed from the article.
>
>Thanks for your time, and have a great day,
>
>Robert Dodier
