What you may do

The AI Manual is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence, the same licence as every ODERSA service. It allows wide reuse, with no permission to request beforehand and no royalties to pay.

• Copy a whole page, or just a passage.
• Change it: cut, reorganise, reword something for your audience.
• Translate it into another language.
• Print it, for a class or for personal use.
• Republish it on another site, in a book, in course material.
• Use it in paid training: the licence also allows commercial use.

One single condition applies in every case: crediting the source. Here is how.

The only obligation: credit

Crediting The AI Manual and ODERSA is enough. No written agreement to request, no email to send before taking up a page: the wording below stands as the agreement.

Copy this text as it is, and replace the bracket with the address of the page you are taking up.

On a slide or a handout, space is sometimes short. This version fits on one line.

If you translate or change the text, the licence asks you to say so, not to hide it. Add “Translated from” or “Adapted from” before the credit line.

Case by case

A teacher projects a page in class

Project the page as it is, or only the passages the lesson needs. No permission to request. The short version of the credit line is enough, on the last slide or said out loud.

A trainer puts a chapter into company material

One chapter, or several, join a training pack, whether that pack stays internal or is invoiced to clients: the licence allows commercial use. The full credit line appears in the pack, on the page used or in its bibliography.

A journalist quotes a passage

A passage quoted in an article comes with the credit line, at least in its short version, with a link to the original page.

An association translates a page

A whole page may be translated and published elsewhere. The credit line says so: “Translated from”, followed by the full credit line and a link to the original page.

Someone prints a page for their parents

A page prints as it is. The footer already carries the credit line: keep it in the printout. If it disappears in the layout, add the short version by hand, at the bottom of the sheet.

Someone takes up a demonstration and its code

The code written for a demonstration is under the same licence as the rest of the site: it can be copied, changed and reused elsewhere, with credit. A third-party library or dataset embedded in a demonstration keeps its own licence: it is listed in the credits, and worth checking before taking up the whole demonstration.

What is not covered

Three things stay outside this licence.

• The third-party sources cited in a page: they remain the property of their authors, and each keeps its own licence.
• The photographs embedded in the pages: each keeps the licence under which its author published it, and its caption carries that author, that licence and the link to its original page. Several are under a share-alike licence, which requires the image to be republished under that same licence. Taking up a whole page therefore means keeping the caption and reading the licence of the image before republishing it. The diagrams, for their part, are drawn by ODERSA and follow the licence of the site.
• The seal and the name of ODERSA: they identify the association, and are not to be used to suggest that it endorses work it has not seen.

What is expected in return

Nothing is required. If your reuse makes you spot a mistake, a dead link or a source that has changed address, ODERSA wants to know: the page report an error explains how, with no account and no form.

The sources of each element

Every source of the course, every diagram, every library embedded in a demonstration is listed with its author and its licence in the credits. The demonstration pages and the blog articles cite the sources specific to their subject in their own footers.

Sources

• Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), the deed in English, Creative Commons, 2013. The text that governs is the full licence. This deed, like this page, is only a plain-language explanation of it.