Open Licensing
All content here is licensed under the open source Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 license.
Open Licensing
We license all content under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license. Everyone is free to:
- Share any content
- Remix our manuals—as long as they attribute the source
- Republish any content or modifications under a similar license
Original Author
Materials you submit to this site must be from one of three sources:
- Content you own the copyright to because you produced it yourself.
- Content that is in the public domain.
- Content that is licensed under a compatible open source license.
When you submit content to this site, you retain full copyright to your materials, and you can use your content in any way you like, including using it for commercial purposes and distributing it to other sites.
By submitting content to this site, you give the site's owner nonexclusive rights to republish and relicense the work. The owner may use the material and can license it to other parties without prior consent from the original author.
What’s Creative Commons?
The Creative Commons organization was created by a group including Lawrence Lessig, a legal scholar (and hobbyist repair technician) who solved the need to provide a flexible open content licensing in situations like ours, where we want our content to be as free as possible.