Licensing Policy

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. Part of the Preamble is quoted below:

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.