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This project does not use Frontier's official logo, proprietary fonts, or copied in-game HUD/interface elements. Branding on this site (logo, color scheme, layout) is original work created for this project. Screenshots hosted here are original captures by contributors — see [[Elite Dangerous Field Manual:Screenshot Policy]] — not assets extracted from Frontier's game files or copied from other fan sites. | This project does not use Frontier's official logo, proprietary fonts, or copied in-game HUD/interface elements. Branding on this site (logo, color scheme, layout) is original work created for this project. Screenshots hosted here are original captures by contributors — see [[Elite Dangerous Field Manual:Screenshot Policy]] — not assets extracted from Frontier's game files or copied from other fan sites. | ||
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Original text content on this wiki is licensed under the '''Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA 3.0)''', matching the license used by the Elite Dangerous Fandom wiki (operator decision, 2026-08-06). This means: | |||
* You may copy, redistribute, and adapt content from this wiki, including commercially, as long as you give appropriate attribution and license your own contributions under the same terms. | |||
* Full license text: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | |||
'''Note on how this was decided''': this license was applied to match the Elite Dangerous Fandom wiki's license based on Fandom's well-established, long-standing platform-wide default (CC BY-SA 3.0 applies to virtually all Fandom wikis unless a specific wiki's admins changed it). A live fetch of this specific wiki's footer to double-confirm was attempted during setup and blocked by Fandom's automated bot protection. If this turns out to be incorrect for that specific wiki, this page and docs/licensing-decisions.md should be corrected accordingly. | |||
This license covers original '''text''' contributed to this wiki. It does '''not''' automatically cover: | |||
* This project's own infrastructure code/scripts (separate, still-undecided license — see `/opt/edwiki/docs/licensing-decisions.md`). | |||
* Any third-party or imported material (this project does not import content from Fandom or elsewhere — see below). | |||
== Third-party/imported content == | == Third-party/imported content == | ||
This project does not import, scrape, or reproduce content or images from Fandom or any other wiki/website. | This project does not import, scrape, or reproduce content or images from Fandom or any other wiki/website. Matching Fandom's license here is about using a compatible, well-understood license for '''original''' contributions to this project — it is not, and should not be read as, a claim to have imported anything from Fandom. | ||
== Contact == | == Contact == | ||
For legal or trademark concerns about this fan project, contact the operator via the address on file for this domain's registration. | For legal or trademark concerns about this fan project, contact the operator via the address on file for this domain's registration. | ||
Revision as of 20:11, 6 August 2026
Elite Dangerous Field Manual is an unofficial community project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Frontier Developments plc. Elite Dangerous and related names, marks, and assets are the property of their respective owners.
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Trademarks
Elite, Elite Dangerous, Frontier, the Frontier Developments logo, and other related marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Frontier Developments plc. This site uses the game's name only descriptively, to identify the subject matter it documents, under nominative fair use principles — not as a claim of ownership or affiliation.
Assets
This project does not use Frontier's official logo, proprietary fonts, or copied in-game HUD/interface elements. Branding on this site (logo, color scheme, layout) is original work created for this project. Screenshots hosted here are original captures by contributors — see Elite Dangerous Field Manual:Screenshot Policy — not assets extracted from Frontier's game files or copied from other fan sites.
Content license
Original text content on this wiki is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA 3.0), matching the license used by the Elite Dangerous Fandom wiki (operator decision, 2026-08-06). This means:
- You may copy, redistribute, and adapt content from this wiki, including commercially, as long as you give appropriate attribution and license your own contributions under the same terms.
- Full license text: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Note on how this was decided: this license was applied to match the Elite Dangerous Fandom wiki's license based on Fandom's well-established, long-standing platform-wide default (CC BY-SA 3.0 applies to virtually all Fandom wikis unless a specific wiki's admins changed it). A live fetch of this specific wiki's footer to double-confirm was attempted during setup and blocked by Fandom's automated bot protection. If this turns out to be incorrect for that specific wiki, this page and docs/licensing-decisions.md should be corrected accordingly.
This license covers original text contributed to this wiki. It does not automatically cover:
- This project's own infrastructure code/scripts (separate, still-undecided license — see `/opt/edwiki/docs/licensing-decisions.md`).
- Any third-party or imported material (this project does not import content from Fandom or elsewhere — see below).
Third-party/imported content
This project does not import, scrape, or reproduce content or images from Fandom or any other wiki/website. Matching Fandom's license here is about using a compatible, well-understood license for original contributions to this project — it is not, and should not be read as, a claim to have imported anything from Fandom.
Contact
For legal or trademark concerns about this fan project, contact the operator via the address on file for this domain's registration.