Permission
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Dear Mr. Ajai Shukla,
I'm a regular reader of your blog. Thank you for the great pictures of PAD and AAD missiles.
I am also one of thousands of volunteer writers for the free encyclopedia Wikipedia. Wikipedia is currently the 8th most-visited English-language website in the world. There are over 2 million articles on English Wikipedia, and over 6 million registered editors. You can view my Wikipedia user page at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sniperz11.
I am presently working on improving an article about India's Ballistic Missile Defense Program, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Ballistic_Missile_Defense_Program), which currently contains no freely-licensed photo of PAD missile.
I was going through the posts on your blog, and found images that I think would be suitable for this page. The Images in question are located at:
1. http://ajaishukla.blogspot.com/2008/02/picture-from-project-air-defence_9861.html
2. http://ajaishukla.blogspot.com/2008/02/picture-from-project-air-defence_5912.html
3. http://ajaishukla.blogspot.com/2008/02/picture-from-project-air-defence.html
I hope you might be willing to license this image for use on Wikipedia to be used to illustrate the article. Your name credit will be attached to the photo, along with a link back to your site.
According to Wikipedia Image use policy, Wikipedia accepts only freely-licensed pictures; This means that images you license out can be freely used, modified and distributed, either commercially or non-commercially, under the condition that attribution be provided to the copyright holder, namely, you.
If you would like to contribute the image, you could license it license it out under Creative Commons 2.5 India. Attribution will be provided to you. If you agree, could you reply to me by email, and include the following statement in your e-mail:
"I own the copyright to the image(s) attached to this email letter. Copyright © belongs to me, all rights reserved. I grant permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License v.2.5 India: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/in/ archive copy at the Wayback Machine. Redistribution must reproduce the above copyright notice, my name, and this list of conditions in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution; Neither my name nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from it without specific prior written permission."
Thank you for your time. If you need any clarifications regarding this, please contact me, and I shall try to answer them.
Regards
xxxxx
(Sniperz11)
Reply
Dear xxxxxxx,
Please feel free to use the PAD/AAD photographs in the Wikipedia page, subject to attribution and to attaching a link to my blog.
I am including the consent below:
"I own the copyright to the image(s) attached to this email letter. Copyright © belongs to me, all rights reserved. I grant permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License v.2.5 India: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/in/ archive copy at the Wayback Machine. Redistribution must reproduce the above copyright notice, my name, and this list of conditions in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution; Neither my name nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from it without specific prior written permission.".
Regards
Ajai Shukla