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There seems to be a problem regarding the description and/or licensing of this particular file. It has been found that you've added in the image's description only a Template that's not a license and although it provides useful information about the image, it's not a valid license. Could you please resolve this problem, adding the license in the image linked above? You can edit the description page and change the text. Uploading a new version of the file does not change the description of the file. This page may give you more hints on which license to choose. Thank you.

This message was added automatically by Nikbot, if you need some help about it, ask its master (Filnik) or go to the Commons:Help desk. --Filnik 00:21, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

If there would be a license, it would be similar to PD-CAGov (but for Washington). However, no such license is created (or authorized) yet.--Enos733 (talk) 08:14, 23 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

I browsed through the licenses, but only a handful of the states in the United States have a license, while in contrast, there is an explicit license for the federal government. Is there a place to find out which states retain a copyright on their work, or is there a movement toward getting public documents into the public domain?--Enos733 (talk) 20:09, 27 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

(I moved this from Filnik's page to here - it's more comfortable here)

If you cannot find a tag in Category:PD_license_tags (mind the second page and the subcategories like "PD-USGov license tags"!) then there is none. You could ask at CT:L for this specific question - but I guess that simply no one knows or works by this state's gov. are not PD (I do not know, as I am from Germany). If I can help you further, just answer here. Cheers --Saibo (Δ) 23:42, 27 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

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