Can I copy legal pages from Wikipedia

[Hans Tanza]

Hello everyone,

I'm starting a wiki site that works in exactly the same way as Wikipedia, with all the content posted by users. Wikipedia contains a wealth of legal information concerning what can and cannot be posted, and what the site is and is not responsible for. Can I copy legal pages such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...ral_disclaimer and just insert my site name and make any other small alterations required for the text to make complete sense in the context of my site?

I suspect I probably can, given that all pages on Wikipedia are subject to the GNU Free Documentation License, but could do with some reassurance! Do I need to make it clear that I've sourced the content of these pages from Wikipedia, for example?

Step forward Wikipedia experts!

Many thanks,

Tom

[Gate2Shop]

It is an open source website, you can use open source material unless it is specifically copy righted.

[Chris]

Wikipedia's licensing tends to require attribution though.

[SedLex]

Hi, the safest thing to do is to make your own. Just make the Wikipedia resources as your guide.