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= License and Attribution =
All content on this wiki is available under the [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license] (CC BY-SA 4.0) unless otherwise noted.

This applies to stories, wiki pages, characters, settings, and all other creative work posted here.

== What this means ==
Under CC BY-SA 4.0, anyone may:

* Read, share, and distribute Duela material
* Adapt, remix, and build new work from Duela material
* Use Duela material commercially

They must:

* Give appropriate credit to the original creator
* Indicate if changes were made
* Share any derivative works under the same license (CC BY-SA 4.0 or compatible)

== Attribution ==
When using or building from another contributor's work, credit the original creator.

For wiki posts and branches, a simple attribution line is sufficient:<pre>
Based on ''Story Title'' by Author Name.
Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
</pre>Link back to the original story when possible.

For published commercial work (print, ebook, or similar) that draws on another contributor's material, credit should appear in the publication itself: in the acknowledgments, copyright page, or a contributor credits section. The standard for attribution scales with the scale of the use. A throwaway reference to a character someone else created warrants a line. A story substantially built on another contributor's worldbuilding warrants more.

If you are building commercial work from Duela material, track your sources as you go. Reconstructing attribution after the fact is harder than maintaining it while writing.

== Commercial use ==
Commercial use is permitted. Writers may publish, sell, license, or otherwise commercially use their Duela work as long as they follow the license terms.

This includes the project founder. No one has special commercial rights over community contributions. The CC BY-SA license was chosen specifically to prevent any single party, including the people who started this project, from taking community contributions and locking them into a proprietary product. What contributors create here remains in the shared creative pool, available to everyone under the same terms.

== Share-alike requirement ==
Derivative works must be shared under CC BY-SA 4.0 or a compatible license.

This means you cannot take Duela material, adapt it, and release the result under a restrictive license that prevents others from doing the same. The shared creative pool stays shared.

== A note on this page ==
This is a practical summary intended to help contributors understand the license. It is not legal advice. For the full license text and legal details, see the [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons website].

If you have questions about how the license applies to a specific situation, it is worth reading the full text or consulting someone with relevant legal knowledge.

== See also ==

* [[Community Rules]]
* [[Contributor Guide]]
* [[Canon Structure]]