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From: Duncan Harris To: Richard H Huelin Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 6:01 PM Subject: railway photographs Dear Richard, I enjoyed your photographs at http://www.planefacts.co.uk/railway/ I am an editor of the Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org), a multilingual project to create an open-content encyclopedia. Volunteers from around the world collaboratively edit Wikipedia, which is one of many projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation (http://www.wikimediafoundation.org). We depend on donated photography to clearly illustrate our articles. We are trying to achieve what SEMG have, albeit on a larger scale, and though depth isn't there yet, it's only a matter of time. For some articles see navboxes at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:SR_Locomotives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:GWR_Locomotives And for photographs see; http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:British_steam_locomotives (you have a few pre-grouping southern engines which we don't yet have articles for) Anyway, 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 (GNU-FDL, or GFDL for short). You retain the copyright and credit for your work but you grant permission for others to use, copy, and share your materials freely, and even potentially use them commercially. But you are given "sharealike" protection, so that no-one can change the licence. This protects you against propietary use, whilst ensuring that other websites such as http://www.answers.com can mirror content, and fitting in with the ideals of the open source software movement, from where Wikipedia originated. If you do agree to grant permission for use, we will credit you for your work, stating it was based on your work and is used with your permission, and by providing a link back to your website. Cheers, Duncan
From: Richard H Huelin To: Duncan Harris Dear Duncan, I am happy to grant permission as requested according to the terms set out in your email below. Regards, Richard.