OSGeoLive Copyright¶

OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB thumb drive or Virtual Machine based on Lubuntu, that allows you to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. It is composed entirely of free software, allowing it to be freely distributed, duplicated and passed around.

License of OSGeo-Live¶

The OSGeo-Live project is distributed under LGPL license v2.1. All documentation is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

OSGeo-Live is composed entirely of free software, free data and free documentation, allowing it to be freely distributed, duplicated and passed around. The licenses of all the packaged projects are summarized further on this page.

  • Project Overviews and Overview Translations, are provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
  • Quickstarts and Quickstart Translations, are provided under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
  • Documentation might also be available under other licenses, as listed below.
  • Software on OSGeoLive is available under various Free and Open Source licenses, as listed in the Project Overviews.
  • Data on OSGeoLive is available under various Open Licences.

Attributing OSGeoLive Documentation¶

As per the terms of the Creative Commons license, if you include OSGeoLive 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:

CC-By-SA-med This document includes content from the “gvSIG Quickstart” created by Simon Cropper under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ available from the OSGeoLive 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] OSGeoLive documentation by OSGeoLive contributors.

Alternative Concise CC-By and attribution:

CC-By-small © 2011 [Your Name]. [Derived from|Includes|Extends] OSGeoLive Project Overviews by OSGeoLive contributors.

Minimum (for Project Overviews), attribution only:

This document includes OSGeoLive Project Overviews by OSGeoLive contributors.