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If you have a study, critique or interesting and helpful technical related research, then the scheme below will help you publish to a worldwide Debian audience.

The Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 4.0 licence allows Debian to easily distribute material worldwide.

Authors do not need to use their real name, only their Debian Forum User name which will be listed as the “Creator” of the work. Should someone, because of your publication, wish to offer you a job or would like to pay you to write an article for them – then you can be contacted via the Forum private messaging (or a Forum listed email, if you added one.)

The scheme also promotes Debian, as forums.debian.net will be on any physical copy made of the work. Attribution details are a required part of the licencing on any copies.

If you are reluctant to publish then you are in good company; Isaac Newton was afraid of controversies and criticism. As a result he was reluctant to publish his results, preferring to communicate them to a narrow circle of his correspondents (a 17th century forum?), or just keep it to himself. Many of his works were published with a large delay, or after his death.**


'''Using CC Licences:'''

Visit <nowiki>https://creativecommons.org/chooser/</nowiki> and fill in the chooser fields.

1. “Do you know which license you need?”....select “Yes”

2. “Which licence do you need?”....................select CC-BY-SA 4.0

3. “Attribution details (optional)

a Title of work.............................Paper / Work title

b Creator of work........................Forum User Name

c Link to work..............................Leave Blank-------->[Note: c & d contain faint

d Link to Creator Profile..............Leave Blank-------->[creativecommons.org text – ignore.

e Year of creation.......................The first draft year

Once selections are made a displayed “Mark Your Work” will be available, after entering all data click on the “Print Work or Media” arrow. This produces instructions:-

“Copy the text below and paste it on the title and/or copyright page of your print work or presentation, or in the credits of your media.”

Under “Plain Text” the displayed text MUST be added verbatim to the work. Example from website;-

Also add, below the line containing “visit”; Link to paper/study available at https://forums.debian.net


The required three lines of text will be of the form;-

''Title of Work © Year by Creator is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.''

''To view a copy of this license, visit'' https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

''Link to paper/media available at'' https://forums.debian.net

If 3 lines are inconvenient on the first page use;-

''© 20nn. This work is openly licensed via CC BY-SA 4.0''.

Omit the page number on the first page and use the space for the one line above, start page numbering from page 2. This may mean changing the page style for page 1. (note: nn completes the year numbering)

Then add the 3 lines on the copyright / credits page at the end of the paper / work.

A link to the work will be available in a Forum post named ‘Title of Work’. This link retrieves the Print Work or Media saved to cloud storage such as Google Drive, iCloud Drive, MS OneDrive, Dropbox or a selected cloud storage. See the “Passwords in Perspective” post

The above will allow any web user to visit the Forum and find any post by the Forum users name (the pseudonym used by the Forum member.) In a post will be the link, 3c, that allows the visitor to download the work.

If the work is not saved as an encrypted document then cloud storage, like Google Drive, will check the document for viruses. A .pdf file, with thumbnail pages, is a good choice for documents.

The link should have permissions set as “anyone with the link”.

This scheme has been approved by Creative Commons 21-July-2025.


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