Note
This license was previously known as the Reciprocal Noncommercial-Free License.
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This is only a summary of the license. The legal text contains the terms of the license.
Hybrid Open License
This license gives you two options, depending on whether you want to use the material commercially.
Option A: Noncommercial
You can use the material as long as you:
- Give credit
- In most cases, simply providing a link to the original is enough credit. (Specifically, the original has to include a link to this license, or you can include one yourself.)
- Use the material for noncommercial purposes only
- This license takes its definition of “noncommercial” from the Creative Commons licenses. Creative Commons has a page about its meaning here. One thing in particular to note is that “noncommercial” describes the use, not the user: Both for-profit and non-profit entities can use the material for noncommercial purposes.
Option B: Commercial
You can use the material for commercial (or noncommercial) purposes as long as you:
- Give credit
- In most cases, simply providing a link to the original is enough credit. (Specifically, the original has to include a link to this license, or you can include one yourself.)
- Allow other people to use your own work that includes it, by using this license
- You can also use a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (3.0 or later) or one of the compatible licenses.
Note: You can choose this option even if you don’t use the material for commercial purposes, in order to give others the possibility of commercial use.