Often, people wish to "donate" copyrighted materials to MyPolokwane.com. These materials may be text, images, audio, or video. They may or may not already be posted on some other web site. They may or may not actually be appropriate for inclusion in MyPolokwane.com. This page exists to provide some guidance in these matters.

(Most of what is on this page also applies to work in the public domain, but the focus is on copyrighted materials, because they raise more complicated issues.)

What it means to donate material to MyPolokwane.com

When you contribute material to MyPolokwane.com, you are not giving us exclusive use of it. You still retain any rights you previously held, but you are giving non-exclusive license under GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). Note that there is no way to say "you can use this in MyPolokwane.com, but not anywhere else or in derivative works." Also, because some derivative works may be commercial, we cannot accept materials that are licensed only for education use or even for general non-commercial use.

Please be aware that the content you donate is subject to continuous editing by the MyPolokwane.com community. It may be added to, subtracted from, rearranged, illustrated, split into multiple articles, translated into other languages, and otherwise changed beyond your expectations. Your contribution will always be part of the page history, so you retain credit for your work -- our license requires us to provide that credit, and to ensure that you are not held liable in any sense for the changes others make to your work. Do remember that one of the benefits of this freedom to edit is that you are freely able to incorporate the improvements that others make into your own website or source work, so long as it remains under the GFDL.

Why we cannot take certain donations

You cannot donate what someone else owns

If you are not the copyright holder of the material you cannot donate rights to MyPolokwane.com! The last thing we want are copyright problems: we try to be ruthless in rooting out material where there is even the slightest question about our right to use it.

For example:

• Most web pages do not allow their material to be freely copied. Unless the material either is public domain, carries a copyleft notice compatible with GFDL, or you have explicit permission to use it, please don't copy and paste from other web sites into MyPolokwane.com. (MyPolokwane.com - Requesting copyright permission provides information on obtaining and verifying explicit permission.)
• If you are the original author but the rights have been assigned to your publisher, you have given up the ability to license the work to us.

MyPolokwane.com is not a universal compendium

There are things we include and things we don't. MyPolokwane.com targets an audience specific to a geographical region known as Polokwane, which is located in the Limpopo province of South Africa. Any content that is not of value to people who are interested in Polokwane, is probably not suitable to be posted on this website.

This page was adapted from the following Wikipedia page for use on MyPolokwane.com: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Donating_copyrighted_materials