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CC BY-SA 3.0 attribution in Android app


I'm developing a mobile app that uses Wiktionary API for retrieving some articles from Wiktionary. This application is going to be commercial. I've read that Wiktionary materials are available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Also I've read next statement in the Wiktionary Terms of Use:

Please note that these licenses do allow commercial uses of your contributions, as long as such uses are compliant with the terms.

So my question is: how exactly do I implement "CC BY-SA 3.0" license in my application? I mean: what (links, names or something else) and where (popups or menu items) should I put into my application to satisfy this license?


Solution

  • Actually, there are non-commercial licenses on CC, for example, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0), which has additional non-commercial restrictions. So, I think you are safe to use CC BY-SA 3.0 materials commercially.

    To implement it, you simply do as asked:

    or more understandably, state