Licenses and Copyright

Blog Text and Articles

Creative Commons Licence

Unless otherwise explicitly stated, the text of this blog, which is original work, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Quotes from other sources are attributed and fall under the UK legal definition of fair use. If you are a a copyright owner unhappy with my use of your material, please let me know and I will try to accommodate your concerns even if there is no legal requirement for me to to so under UK law.

Source Code

The Creative Commons licensing is not ideal for source code, and I am generally happy for code snippets to be incorporated into commercial products without significant restrictions. Unless otherwise clearly stated, code in this blog is licensed under an MIT license:

MIT License

Copyright (c) [year of posting] Jeremy O'Donoghue (jeremy.odonoghue@gmail.com)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

Other materials

Most photos and drawings are my own original work and can be re-used under the same Creative Commons license as blog text and articles.

Drawings and photos taken from elsewhere are credited and re-use is subject to any conditions imposed by the copyright owner (checked by me at the time of post creation). I take care to ensure that there is sufficient information crediting the original source to allow others to perform their own checks if they wish to use the materials themselves.