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SIF Implementation Specification: Licences
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Overview:
On July 18th, 2017 the Access 4 Learning Community (henceforth “A4L”) Association Board of Directors elected to ensure that the contents, associated artifacts and schemas representing the SIF specification should be open and available to all and protected under global standard licensing agreements.
All human-readable artifacts published and created by the Access 4 Learning Community are protected under a Creative Commons license.
All machine-readable artifacts and content is protected under an Apache 2 license.
All published artifacts and Specifications published after July 18, 2017 are covered.
Human-readable artifacts
The SIF Implementation Specifications and all human-readable related artifacts and materials are available under an Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Entities must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. Modifications of this license and derivatives need to be licensed under the same terms, but not other works in the compilation or collection. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. Entities may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
Machine-readable artifacts
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