Contribution License

All contributions to U8 are the property of the submitter unless otherwise noted, but are released under the MIT License which permits any kind of use and requires only that the below license be reproduced. In particular, there is no requirement for attribution, no restriction on commercial use, and no requirement to release derivative works under a similar license. The authors of a particular page can be viewed by following the "History" link in the page of a code contribution.

All content except for the exceptions listed in the below section is considered to be released under the following terms:

Copyright © 2011 the authors listed in the "History" page.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

  • The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
  • THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

    This is a license known variously as the MIT License and is acknowledged by the Open Source Initiative. By clicking [Save] you are indicating you grant any and all persons and organizations a license to use your work under terms of the above bolded text. If you do not agree with these terms, then do not submit your work to this website.

    When you download source code, the software will automatically add a copyright notice to each file that it knows the comment format for. This notice includes the full text of the MIT license, as well as the URL of the page history and a link to the downloaded version. You may wish to also add this notice to files that the software can't handle.

    Compatibility

    If you wish to add existing source code or a derivative of existing code to U8, you must ensure it is released under a license compatible with the MIT license. Because MIT is so liberal, there are extremely few such licenses; the only popular ones are MIT itself, free use (release all rights), and public domain. The main difference with the latter two is that they do not require any copyright notice to be attached to the software, and do not provide any disclaimer of warranty or liability. The copyright notice will still be added to these files by the software, but will have no effect.

    Note in particular that the following licenses are not compatible with our license:

    • GPL, LGPL, or GFDL (including Wikipedia, Wikisource, and Wikibooks content)
    • Any Creative Commons license (they all require attribution)
    • BSD (modified or original)
    • Apache, Mozilla, PHP, Artistic (Perl), Python, Sleepycat, or zlib

    If your contribution contains code under any of these licenses, it will be deleted unless you are the copyright owner or can persuade the copyright owner to re-release it under MIT or public domain. Sometimes individual contributors to a project will release (or multilicense) their own work under a more liberal license; if you can demonstrate that the material you obtained was written solely by such a person or persons via a change history, it is admissable.

    Images and files

    I am either the original creator of this work or have obtained permission from the original creator to release it under the following terms. I irrevocably grant this work into the public domain, permitting it to be used by anyone for any purpose. In case this is not legally possible, I also release all rights to the work granted by copyright law, allowing anyone to copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, and sell this file, and create derivative works under any terms. Moreover, I affirm that to the best of my knowledge, this work is not derived from any copyrighted work not released under these same terms.

    Note that this license applies only to this specific file, not necessarily derivative works, visually similar works in other formats, or higher resolution versions of the same image. We choose to use this license for images because we want to be able to redistribute accompanying images with our textual content, and applying MIT to images can be cumbersome, since it requires a textual copyright notice to accompany the image when it is reused, even in contexts without the capability for text.

    Copyright infringements

    If you are the owner of copyrighted or copyleft content that is being used on U8 without your permission, then please contact our Designated agent to have it permanently removed. We will, of course, need some evidence to support your claim of ownership.



    Stipulated February, 2012
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