Website License (Copyright Notice)

Why do we need a license at all?

We want to share. That's why we have a website. If we didn't want to share, why put anything on the web?

We want to share, but we don't want to get ripped off or otherwise abused. We can protect ourselves and our content by using an appropriate license. When explicitly stating the license along with the content, we're doing the best we can to make sure that we retain the rights that we want to have.

Why do we need this particular license?

There are many kinds of licenses out there, but the Creative Commons appeals to us for two reasons. First and foremost, the license is worded to let us keep those rights that we want to keep, and open up everything else for reasonable public use. Second, the license is presented in a very straightforward way while still being legally accurate and enforceable.

We used to have the GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL).

The license consist of three versions for different audiences:

• Human-Readable Commons Deed
• Lawyer-Readable Legal Code
• Machine-Readable Digital Code

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