Licences

GILF provides seven licensing options comprising six Creative Commons (CC) licences, and the GILF Restrictive Licence Template (RL). To[A1]gether with an appropriate copyright statement they provide the conditions of use and access.

Creative Commons Licences comprise the following licence Edit Pageconditions which determine the legal restrictions of each licence:

Attribution

This licence allows the replication, distribution, display, performance and remixing of copyrighted work with the proviso that use is credited to the author.

Share Alike

This licence allows others to distribute derivative works provided the new works are licensed under identical conditions.

Non-commercial

This licence allows the replication, distribution, display or performance of the work, as well as derivative works based on the product, but is restricted to use for non-commercial purposes only.

No Derivative Works

This licence allows the replication, distribution, display or performance of the work but is restricted in that the use of the work must be exactly as per the original work.

The following licences are included in GILF and are listed in order of least restrictive to most restrictive:

Attribution (BY)
Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
Attribution Share Alike (BY-SA)
Attribution No Derivatives (BY-ND)
Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike (BY-NC-SA)
Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)
Restrictive Licence Template (RL)

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All GILF licences are provided in plain English, Licence Deed and Legal Code. When applied to a document, web page or other form of publication, GILF licences are represented by a licence badge containing a link to the licence deed.

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