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Correct licensing: GNU Free Documentation License 1.2.

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
html
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start with _includes/sidebar.html at the referenced line and compare the current licensing text with the archived Main_Page copies linked in the issue. Before changing it, check with contributors as requested; done means the sidebar reflects the confirmed GNU Free Documentation License version rather than “All rights reserved.”

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Description

As can be verified using http://archive.org to view old copies of the website, the wiki content was licensed under the "GNU Free Documentation License 1.2." http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html (since superceded by v1.3), e.g.

We'd need to check with the contributors since the GitHub migration, and then update the new template here which currently says "All rights reserved.":
https://github.com/biopython/biopython.github.io/blob/master/_includes/sidebar.html#L51

Reported by @hlapp by email.

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