CLIP

Creative Commons Attribution 1.0

CLIP/SPDX License ID: CC-BY-1.0

This license is maintained by Creative Commons for use with content.

Benchmark Summary (details)
Openness score:	19.7 / 25	User legal risk mitigation:	2.8 / 5.0
Rights granted:	14.0 / 15.0	Business risk mitigation:	3.3 / 5.0

Rights and Permissions

You are free to:

Use and reproduce the work for your own purposes
Modify the work and adapt it into your own projects
Distribute the work and share it with others

However, you must NOT do any of the following:

Lock the work with any technical protection measures (TPMs) or digital rights management (DRM)

Your freedoms under this license apply to all copyright that vests in the work. However, you still must ensure that you do not infringe any:

Trade-marks
Patents
Neighbouring rights (ie. rights in a sound recording or performance)
Database rights (where applicable under European law)
Moral rights

What does this all mean?

Obligations

You must:

Retain the original copyright notices and disclaimers to inform downstream users of the license conditions that apply to the original work
Provide attribution to the original authors (you may do so in any reasonable manner appropriate to your medium)

What does this all mean?

Disclaimers

The licensor makes no guarantee to you as to:

The quality of the work. Keep in mind that the work may contain inaccuracies and errors. It may be entirely unsuitable for your purpose.

Note that the licensor does include a "noninfringement warranty", providing a guarantee that he or she owns all of the rights which the license claims to grant.

The license also contains a general disclaimer of liability. In most cases, you cannot sue the licensor, even if you suffer injuries or financial harm due to errors, inaccuracies, or faults on the part of the licensor.

What does this all mean?

License versioning

Even if the licensor releases a new version of the license with different terms, you can continue your use of the work under the original license.

However, if you retrieve an updated copy of the work, it may then come under the terms of the new license.

What does this all mean?

Choice of Law and Forum

The license does not specify a forum for any lawsuits. If a legal dispute arises between you and the licensor, courts will decide upon the location for the hearing based on how strongly the legal issue connects to the jurisdictions involved.

The license does not specify the particular law that a court is to apply when resolving a dispute. To interpret the license, courts will determine the appropriate law based on how strongly the legal issue relates to each jurisdiction involved.

What does this all mean?

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Contribute

Want to help expand CLIP's database of licensing information? Spot an error in one of the licenses? You can add a new license or edit an existing one with our user-friendly license editor.

Simply fill out the license editor form and then copy the generated JSON data. You can either e-mail us the data, or, preferably, directly submit your updates to our GitHub repository.

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About CLIP

The CIPPIC Open Licensing Project (CLIP) is an initiative of the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, a public interest technology law clinic at the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, University of Ottawa.
This is a beta version of the project. The information may contain errors. We will also be adding additional licenses and new features in the future!

Financial support for the project provided by GeoConnections, a national collaborative initiative led by National Resources Canada.

GeoConnections supports the integration and use of Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI), an on-line resource that improves the sharing, access and use of open geospatial information.