OSGeo-Live is composed entirely of free software, free data and free documentation, allowing it to be freely distributed, duplicated and passed around.
As per the terms of the Creative Commons license, if you include OSGeo-Live documentation into a new document, you will need to attribute the contributors. Further, if Quickstarts are included, which are licenced under the CC By-SA license, then the new document will also need to be licenced under the CC By-SA.
Note that images are not necessarily provided under the same CC license as the text; check with the author.
You may use attribution text similar to one of the following:
Verbose, suitable for a 100 page thesis:
This document includes content from the “gvSIG Quickstart” created by Simon Cropper under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported licence, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ available from the OSGeo-Live project, http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/gvsig_quickstart.html, and downloaded on 25 July 2011. The original work was translated from English to German.
Concise CC-By-SA and attribution:
© 2011 [Your Name] under a CC By SA License. [Derived from|Includes|Extends] OSGeo-Live documentation by OSGeo-Live contributors.
Alternative Concise CC-By and attribution:
© 2011 [Your Name]. [Derived from|Includes|Extends] OSGeo-Live Project Overviews by OSGeo-Live contributors.
Minimum (for Project Overviews), attribution only:
This document includes OSGeo-Live Project Overviews by OSGeo-Live contributors.
The table below credits the contributors for each of the documents on OSGeo-Live.
| Document | Author(s) | Reviewers(s) | License(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
The contents of OSGeo-Live are provided by the copyright holders and contributors “as is” and any express or implied warranties, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of the merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose are disclaimed. In no event shall the copyright owner or contributors be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential damages (including, but not limited to, procurement of substitute goods or services; loss of use, date, or profits; or business interruption) however caused and on any theory of liability, whether in contract, strict liablity, or tort (including negligence or otherwise) arising in any way out of the use of this software, even if advised of the possibility of such damage.