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A Creative Commons Attribution license is used for original ODMdev content. It 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
1.1 The original literary works making up the ODMdev ActiveODMA Development Framework 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. The license can be applied to software, although that will not be done with ODMdev software.
1.2 ODMdev software is covered under different licenses. Nevertheless, all software for which source code is provided is generally safe to operate with as if the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license applied. The required form of attribution and other details may differ, but the intention is the same.
2.1 It is the intention for ODMdev that copyright status and license status of all material be clearly stated, that it be 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 use of ODMdev materials.
2.2 When materials are subject to different licenses than the preferred ODMdev ones, that material will be separated in a way that makes the different license conditions very clear. The presence of a different license with additional conditions and constraints will be made known and provided for review without requiring any access to the licensed materials.
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 ODMdev 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 ODMdev. 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.
- see also:
- nfoWare N060101e: Creative Commons License Non-Web Notice Procedure
nfoWare N060101f: Creative Commons License Web-Page Notice Procedure
- Hamilton, Dennis E. (2005)
- 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>.
The use of Creative Commons is in the spirit of this published policy.- Hamilton, Dennis E. (2006)
- nfoWare Creative Commons License. nfoNote N060101 version 0.50, web page, nfoWare.com, 2006-01-09. Accessed at <http://nfoWare.com/notes/2006/01/N060101.htm>.
The nfoWare approach refines the original TROSTing use of Creative Commons Attribution 2.0. The ODMdev use of Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 is based on the nfoWare material.
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