Licensing Policy
From HacDC Wiki
Point four of our Mission Statement says HacDC will freely share its research and discoveries, using what is learned to teach others.
In general, our licensing policy guarantees this mission point as well as ensuring that HacDC remains compliant with the spirit and letter of the law for 501(c)(3) exempt non-profit organizations.
Our licensing policy is considered a part of our because the emphasis of the policy is to encourage collaboration.
DO NOT CONTRIBUTE TO A HACDC PROJECT IF YOU ARE UNCOMFORTABLE WITH OUR LICENSING POLICY
Content we link to
Please check with the owner of any content we link to via our Wiki and our Blog.
In some cases, we reproduce some content not owned by us on our servers. We will make every effort to ensure the property rights of those whose content we reproduce on our servers.
Website, Blog and Other Creations
All contributions and content produced by HacDC (except for our Wiki) are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License
For attribution purposes, we ask that you link back to the relevant content on hacdc.org and give credit to content creators, where applicable.
This is an excerpt of the license. Please visit the link above for the full text:
You are free: to Share — to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work to Remix — to make derivative works Under the following conditions: Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. The best way to do this is with a link to this web page. Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder. Apart from the remix rights granted under this license, nothing in this license impairs or restricts the author's moral rights.
Wiki
Because of the special nature of the content available on the HacDC Wiki, all contributions to it are considered to be released under the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2:
The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other functional and useful document "free" in the sense of freedom: to assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it, with or without modifying it, either commercially or noncommercially. Secondarily, this License preserves for the author and publisher a way to get credit for their work, while not being considered responsible for modifications made by others. This License is a kind of "copyleft", which means that derivative works of the document must themselves be free in the same sense. It complements the GNU General Public License, which is a copyleft license designed for free software.