nfoNote N060101 Creative Commons License

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A Creative Commons Attribution license is used for original nfoWare content.  It serves to establish a standard of attribution and credit to others and to sources that is a mark of scholarship.  It also makes liberal provision for reuse, distribution, and adaptation by others without requiring any additional permission.

1. Summary
2. Statement of Intent
3. Trustworthiness Considerations
4. Available Material
5. Sources

1. Summary

1.1 The original literary works that comprise the nfoWare project material are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license.  This license provides very simple conditions for compliance, as explained in the Deed.  This license is intended for literary works in text, video, and audio forms in analog, digital, and other media, including print.  Although not created for that purpose, the license can be applied to software, a literary work in copyright parlance.

1.2 Although software and its documentation are often covered under different licenses, all software for which source code is provided here is safe to operate with as if the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license applied.   The required form of attribution and detailed license may differ, but the intention is the same. 

2. Statement of Intent

2.1 It is the intention for nfoWare that copyright status and license status of all material is clearly stated, that it is a simple matter to confirm the origins and status of all material, and that any compliance with license requirements be straightforward and simple to carry out.  If one simply assumes that attribution is required, it will be difficult to go wrong in making any use of the materials whatsoever.

2.2 There may be other materials subject to different licenses and having different owners.  That material will be used and identified in a way that makes the existence of any separate license very clear.  The presence of additional conditions and constraints will be announced and available for review without making any access to the restricted materials.  We shall separate such materials to reduce the risk of misunderstanding.

3. Trustworthiness Considerations

3.1 Additional steps are taken to demonstrate trustworthiness in how the Creative Commons License is used and applied.

3.2 The official definitions and documents of the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license are provided on the Creative Commons web site.  In all places where a Creative Commons license is cited, there is a link to a local replica along with the requisite link to content on the Creative Commons site.  This redundancy serves two purposes:

• 3.2.1 nfoWare materials are intended to be usable on local storage (CD-ROM and a local hard-disk or private web server) even where the Creative Commons site is not accessible for any reason, not just the absence of Internet connectivity.  When nfoWare materials may be duplicated and distributed in printed form, the replicas can appear with that material as well.
      

• 3.2.2 The materials reflect the state of the Creative Commons license documents at the time that they were adopted for nfoWare.  Even if there are changes to the materials or the current documents are withdrawn in favor of others, the replicas providing an account of the agreements and conditions as adopted. 

3.3 The Creative Commons Corporation exhibits great care in preserving stable license versions.  If there is advantage to adoption of a replacement license, adoption may commence as new and revised materials are introduced.  Application to already-published material will depend on the nature of the change and determining whether the license remains at least as generous as the current Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license.

3.4 Any actions to remedy a discovered imperfection or defect in the effective use of the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license will depend on the specific circumstances.  At this point there is no known circumstance that couldn't be accommodated by updating this material and the relevant notices included on the web pages of this site.

3.5 Any requests from authors and copyright owners to take down material will also be honored as individual circumstances require.

4. Available Material

• N060101f: Creative Commons License Web-Page Notice Procedure
• N060101e: Creative Commons License Non-Web Notice Procedure
• N060101d: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Legal Code
• N060101c: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Deed
• N060101a: Diary & Job Jar

5. Sources

Hamilton, Dennis E. (2005a)

TROSTing Creative Commons License.  InfoNote i050403 version 0.26, web page, TROSTing.org, 2005-08-14.  Accessed at <http://TROSTing.org/info/2005/04/i050403.htm>.
     The nfoWare approach refines the original TROSTing use of Creative Commons Attribution 2.0.  The nfoWare attention to attribution, with examples and guidance, will be used to update ("back-factor") the TROSTing materials as part of upgrading to Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 there.
    

Hamilton, Dennis E. (2005b)

NuovoDoc ODMA Contribution Licensing.  Product Information, NuovoDoc.com, 2005-12-17.  Available at <http://NuovoDoc.com/info/2005/12/i051205c1.htm>.  Latest version maintained at <http://NuovoDoc.com/products/ODMlicensing.htm>.

Revision History:

0.50 2006-01-09-11-10:44 Customize for nfoWare

The material from TROST is edited to form a reasonable cover to the current expanded treatment using Attribution 2.5.

0.00 2006-01-01-21:22 create placeholder to morph into the necessary material

Incorporate job jar and use it to drive the completion of essential items here, providing an initial skeleton for more content.  This is a customization of TROST infoNote i050403 on the same subject.

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