Licence
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The licence
The original content of the GRC Documentation Library is released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. Read the licence file (opens in a new tab) in the repository, or the canonical licence text (opens in a new tab).
Parts
Parts under a different licence
- External reference materials the library cites, and the short attributed quotations NOTICE.md (opens in a new tab) allows or keeps under its transition clause: their publishers' own terms; the licence applies only to original repository content.
- The shared site template (baseline 1.11.1): dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0 Universal, with these exceptions. The fonts Newsreader, Public Sans, JetBrains Mono, and Dancing Script are licensed by their authors under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, with their licence files beside the fonts in this site's asset tree; the GitHub, LinkedIn, and ORCID marks in the footer are trademarks of their owners, used under the owners' published terms as recorded in the marks notice (opens in a new tab), and are not covered by the CC0 grant.
- The vendored third-party material NOTICE.md records as carve-outs (the Apache-2.0 rule snapshot, the vendored AIQT corpus-tool subset, the MIT rule overlays and skills, and the separately copyrighted CC BY-SA 4.0 Clean Language skill): each keeps its own licence and notices.
In plain language
What you may do
You may reproduce, share, and adapt the material, commercially included (section 2(a)(1)), under the conditions of section 3:
- attribution (3(a)(1)(A)): keep, where the licensor supplied them, the identification of the creator and anyone else designated for attribution, the copyright notice, the notice that refers to this licence, the notice that refers to the disclaimer of warranties, and a link to the material where reasonably practicable;
- indicate if you modified the material, and keep any indication of previous modifications (3(a)(1)(B));
- indicate that the material is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 and include the licence text or a link to it (3(a)(1)(C)); you may meet these conditions in any reasonable manner for the medium, for example by a link to a page that carries the information (3(a)(2)), and, if the licensor asks, you must remove any of the attribution information above to the extent reasonably practicable (3(a)(3));
- ShareAlike (3(b)): adapted material you share must carry the same licence, this version or later, or a BY-SA compatible licence (3(b)(1)), with that licence's text or link included (3(b)(2)), and you may not add terms or technological measures that restrict the rights the adapter's licence grants (3(b)(3)); the same bar on added restrictions applies to the material itself (2(a)(5)(C)).
Key limits: no endorsement may be implied (2(a)(6)); patent and trademark rights are not licensed (2(b)(2)); the material is offered as is, without warranties of any kind, to the extent possible and unless the licensor separately undertakes otherwise, and where the law allows such a disclaimer (section 5(a)), and, to the extent possible and where the law allows such a limit, the licensor is not liable for losses arising out of the licence or the use of the material (5(b)); your rights end automatically if you fail to comply, and reinstate if you cure the violation within 30 days of discovering it (section 6).
The licence applies only to original repository content; external reference materials keep their publishers' terms (NOTICE.md). The library is organization-neutral reference material to adapt to your obligations; legal advice is outside it.
The licence text governs; this is a summary, not legal advice.
Note
Jeff Posluns prefers to publish openly and releases each project under the licence that best fits it: open source licences for software, and public domain or Creative Commons licences for documentation and content.