Licenses

The Open Environmental Data Project is committed to open licensing, to ensure that our work can be widely used and incorporated into the work of others. Most of the content of our website, as well as our publications, are therefore licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution- ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International License (see below for more information).

However, our website also incorporates some content under other licenses, including other open content licenses as well as proprietary licenses. For example, we use stock images on our website and in blog posts that are subject to commercial licenses. We have done our best to give appropriate attribution for third-party content, but if you have any questions about the license that applies to any particular content, feel free to contact us at info@openenvironmentaldata.org.

CC By-SA Content

The CC By-SA license that applies to most OEDP content allows you to share and adapt our work, as long as you provide attribution to the authors and license your own adaptations under the same terms. For more information about the license terms, see the human-readable summary and the full license terms for CC BY-SA 4.0. When you share or adapt our content, you must provide attribution that identifies:


Here’s an example of a typical attribution where you haven’t made any changes to the content:

Introduction to the Open Environmental Data Project” by Shannon Dosemagen, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Here’s an example of a typical attribution where you have made change to the content:

Diagram by Open Environmental Data Project, used under CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped and resized).

If you have any questions about the proper form of attribution, see “Best practices for attribution” on the Creative Commons wiki, or email us at info@openenvironmentaldata.org.