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== Is it okay to use my user pages for a prayer book project? ==
I'm working on a personal prayer book, drawing from public-domain sources and my own limited translation and poetic skills; primarily I dislike that none of the prayer books I've found have updated language to reflect how the meanings of some words have changed over time. This gets in the way of one of my favorite things about the religion, the refusal to make god the "bad guy". I also want to typeset them nicely with LaTex eventually and make mini-books, and generally code a MediaWiki -> LaTex -> cute little books pipeline. Is it okay to put that text in my user pages? The primary source is http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34981 and is under the Project Gutenberg License. In general my assumption is that during The Father's time, prayers likely were changed often and primarily passed down by oral tradition or hand-written books individual to each person. -[[User:Dclark|Dclark]] ([[User talk:Dclark|talk]]) 19:08, February 8, 2020 (UTC)
(Nevermind.)
:::: Of course, I wanted to move the articles first, and then delete ru.orthodoxwiki. But first I wanted to hear an answer. Now I have heard it. ~ [[User:Чръный человек|Чръный человек]] ([[User talk:Чръный человек|talk]]) 14:57, January 29, 2018 (UTC)
::::: Thank you for taking care of this. The licensing is a little tricky, since both the GFDL and the CC-BY-SA licenses do not allow republishing of derivative work under a more restrictive license. My recommendation, if the people at Drevo will allow it, is to move all articles there and include a note about source and licensing. All authors should be given appropriate credit. A workaround is if the authors of an article agree to re-license their work under Drevo's terms. For example, if you are the author of the whole of an article (or the article was taken fully from Drevo) there is no issue at all moving it there. I have no idea how Copyright law is structured or enforced in Russia. As you know, the GFDL and CC-BY-SA licenses do not prohibit for-profit use—however any for-profit use is seriously compromised by the "viral" nature of these open source licenses (since any derivative work must likewise be open sourced). In any case, please let me know when content has been moved and I will go ahead and remove the RU wiki. — [[User:FrJohn|<b>FrJohn</b>]] ([http://orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=User_talk:FrJohn&action=edit§ion=new talk]) 21:14, January 30, 2018 (UTC)
