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license

How do you know it wasn't taken on a Free OS? You're assuming the window chrome was drawn by windows. But this is a Java app, which manages its own chrome. Also, you aren't the copyright holder in either case, so I don't see why/how you have the right to change the copyright declaration made by the actual copyright holder. -- 81.128.178.178 04:13, 15 April 2016 (CDT)

follow-up quoting from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Software_screenshots#Choice_of_platform

"consensus has indicated that some Windows themes, such as "Windows Classic" and Windows 8's "Metro" theme, are too basic for copyright protection due to their geometric nature (and can be included without problem on screenshots of FOSS running on that platform)"

First off I have the right because I am the owner of this website and I am personally responsible for any rights issues that might come up; declaring something as fair use when there is any uncertainty about whether or not it can be freely licensed is always safer from a pure legal POV. However, putting that aside, your link is satisfactory and I will restore the previous licensing status (albeit not using the same template as that template is deprecated) --Quasar (talk) 10:59, 15 April 2016 (CDT)

Hi Quasar, thanks for updating the license category.

I have some slight concerns around your assertion that you are the owner of this website. I appreciate that, copyright ownership aside, the host of problematic content has some liability, and that's something I didn't raise earlier. But the host in this case would be Mancunet/Mike, rather than yourself. And there's no doubt that you have been the leader and main driving force behind this whole project for the longest time now, and we really couldn't do without you. But what troubles me is, to what extent do you think we are working together, or *for* you? I'm concerned that if we are at loggerheads on an issue, are you/could you/might you pull rank on us? On a related note, and I realise you have not ended up being in this position on purpose, but we are basically one person deep (bus factor: 1) on important things like site resilience, which is why I've been banging on about backups and data dumps for a long time. It's all fine and well to assure us that all is fine, but I would be much happier if I knew *I* had a dump of everything myself, and worst-case scenario, some crazy bus driver takes you out, takes Mike out and steals Mancunet's hard drives, I could get the thing back up again myself. Or anyone could. -- Jdowland (talk) 09:49, 19 April 2016 (CDT)