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--- a/doc/plugins/contrib/default_content_for___42__copyright__42___and___42__license__42__.mdwn
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@@ -1,12 +1,47 @@
-[[meta title="default content for *copyright* and *license*"]]
+[[!template id=plugin name=copyright author="[[tschwinge]]"]]
+[[!template id=plugin name=license author="[[tschwinge]]"]]
 
-[[template id=plugin name=copyright author="[[tschwinge]]"]]
-[[template id=plugin name=license author="[[tschwinge]]"]]
+[[!meta title="default content for *copyright* and *license*"]]
 
 Someone was just asking for it and I had written these two plugins already some months ago,
 so I'm now publishing them here.
 
-<http://www.schwinge.homeip.net/~thomas/tmp/copyright.pm>
-<http://www.schwinge.homeip.net/~thomas/tmp/license.pm>
+[`copyright.pm`](http://www.schwinge.homeip.net/~thomas/tmp/copyright.pm)
+and
+[`license.pm`](http://www.schwinge.homeip.net/~thomas/tmp/license.pm)
+
+Usage instructions are found inside the two plugin files.
 
 --[[tschwinge]]
+
+I was asking about this in IRC the other day, but someone pointed me at the
+[[Varioki|todo/varioki_--_add_template_variables___40__with_closures_for_values__41___in_ikiwiki.setup]]
+plugin. It seems to me that it would be a better idea to have a way of defining
+template variables in general, rather than having to add a new plugin for every
+template variable somebody wants to use.
+
+--[[bma]]
+
+Copyright and license values are not "template values", they are values
+tracked by the [[meta]] plugin, and that various code compares and uses to fill
+out the templates. Something like varioki cannot do that. --[[Joey]]
+
+Somewhat more detailed usage documentation would be appreciated. I tried to setup
+those plugins with a current ikiwiki release, i.e. 2.61, but they appeared to do
+nothing, really. Also, those example pages don't seem to use those plugins, even;
+they set "copyright" and "license" properties using ordinary [[meta]] tags. Maybe
+I'm missing something terribly obvious? --Peter
+
+> Only obvious if you read the source :-). You need to put a file named "copyright.html"
+>(respectively "license.html") in your wiki. Everything underneath that (in the wikilink sense) will use that
+>content for the license or copyright. Saves putting \[[meta license="foo"]] in every page [[DavidBremner]]
+
+By the way: these need not be *HTML* files; `copyright.mdwn`,
+respectively `license.mdwn`, or every other format supported
+by ikiwiki are likewise fine.  --[[tschwinge]]
+
+> Jon has done something similar in [[todo/allow_site-wide_meta_definitions]];
+> his version has the advantages that it doesn't invent magical page names,
+> and can extend beyond just copyright and license, but has the disadvantage
+> that it doesn't support setting defaults for a given "subdirectory"
+> only. --[[smcv]]