Licenses

Since we're working with EOL (and intend some or all of the content we develop to end up at EOL), we should start thinking about the copyright and licensing issues for material we will push to the EOL site. This specifically includes photographs or drawings that we associate with taxon data.

The licenses that are acceptable to EOL are (in order of increasing restriction):

Public domain
CC-Attribution: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
CC-Attribution Share Alike: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0
CC-Attribution Non-Commercial: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0
CC-Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

The "CC" licenses are described at the Creative Commons website:
http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses

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  • EOL_Licensing_Policy.pdf - on May 6, 2009 10:43 AM by Dean Pentcheff (version 1)
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