Licenses
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Instructional Material
All Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry, and Library Carpentry
instructional material is made available under the Creative Commons
Attribution license. The following is a human-readable summary of
(and not a substitute for) the full legal
text of the CC BY 4.0 license.
You are free:
- to Share—copy and redistribute the material in any
medium or format
- to Adapt—remix, transform, and build upon the
material
for any purpose, even commercially.
The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the
license terms.
Under the following terms:
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Attribution—You must give appropriate credit
(mentioning that your work is derived from work that is Copyright ©
Software Carpentry and, where practical, linking to https://software-carpentry.org/), provide a link to the
license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any
reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor
endorses you or your use.
No additional restrictions—You may not apply legal
terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing
anything the license permits. With the understanding that:
Notices:
- You do not have to comply with the license for elements of the
material in the public domain or where your use is permitted by an
applicable exception or limitation.
- No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the
permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights
such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the
material.
Software
Except where otherwise noted, the example programs and other software
provided by Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry are made available
under the OSI-approved MIT
license.
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:
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EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
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TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
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