Gaah! Is there anyone out there who’s experienced with Wikipedia templates, who can help me resolve this mess? I uploaded a screenshot of Will Crowther’s original Colossal Cave Adventure (freeware, c. 1976), but the Wikipedia copyright-protection policies are written for current programs (where the visuals are much more important).
Licensing
This is a screenshot of copyrighted computer software, and the copyright
for its contents is most likely held by the author(s) or the company
that created the software. It is believed that the use of a limited number of web-resolution screenshots:
- for identification of and critical commentary on the software in question
- in the absence of a free alternative,
- on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,
…qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.
To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
If this is a screenshot of free software (GPL, BSD, etc.) do not use this template! Use the license tag that correspond to the license instead, optionally alongside {{Free screenshot}} to categorize as a free screenshot. Rationale: This is a screenshot of freeware, originally released by author Will Crowther in the 1970s.
This image does not meet Wikipedia’s non-free content policy. The image needs a separate fair-use rationale for each article that links to (or names) the article it is used in. An explanation of how to do this can be found at Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline – the easiest way to add a fair-use rationale is with a template such as {{non-free use rationale}}. If this is not fixed within a week, the image will be removed from any articles without a proper rationale. Please remove this tag once the problem is fixed.
This image does not have an adequate rationale for the following article(s):
- MUD
- Adventure game
- Audio game
Post was last modified on 2 Oct 2022 7:34 pm
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