Elite Dangerous Field Manual:Legal and Trademark Notice

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Elite Dangerous Field Manual is an unofficial, non-commercial community project. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Frontier Developments plc. Game assets and imagery from Elite Dangerous are used with permission of Frontier Developments plc. Elite Dangerous and related trademarks and assets remain the property of their respective owners.

No endorsement implied

Nothing on this site should be read as suggesting Frontier Developments plc has reviewed, endorsed, sponsored, or otherwise approved of this project.

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 descriptively, to identify the subject matter it documents, under nominative fair use principles — not as a claim of ownership or affiliation.

Assets

Game assets and imagery from Elite Dangerous — including screenshots and in-game visuals used to illustrate articles — are used with permission of Frontier Developments plc, under Frontier's fan content policy for non-commercial community projects. That permission does not extend to Frontier's official company logo or proprietary fonts, which this project does not use. Branding on this site (logo, colour scheme, layout) is original work created for this project, not Frontier's. Screenshots hosted here are original captures by contributors — see Elite Dangerous Field Manual:Screenshot Policy — not copied from other fan sites.

Content license

Original text content on this wiki is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) (updated from 3.0 on 2026-08-07, operator decision). 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/4.0/

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`).
  • Game assets/imagery used under Frontier's fan content policy (see Assets above) — that permission is Frontier's, not a CC license, and doesn't transfer to someone reusing content from this wiki.
  • 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.

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