General Copyright and Licensing Guidelines

Read the documentation, learn from it and use the knowledge for any purpose, which may include commercial use. In fact, commercial use of your knowledge is more than encouraged. We want you and your organization to prosper.

Quote from the documentation, which means copying short parts of the documentation. You can use the quoted parts for any purpose, as long as the size of the quoted part is reasonable. For example, you can copy samples from the documentation and use it in your configuration, even for commercial purposes. You can copy reasonable parts of the documentation in your academic paper, in your blog, even in a wiki dedicated to your commercial project. If you are publishing such parts in a form that is supposed to be read by a human, you are supposed to include proper attribution (see below). Just remember, that these parts must be small. When in doubt, look up how your applicable copyright legislation defines "fair use".

Link to the documentation from anywhere, whether the source is public or private, commercial or non-commercial. All the documentation is publicly available, therefore a simple link is usually enough to convey the information. Linking to our documentation is strongly encouraged. We want the knowledge to spread far and wide.

Share the documentation freely in your organization, team or research group. You can save the documentation of off-line use. You can copy the information as it is and share it. You can even convert it to a different format, as long as the meaning and general look of the document stays the same. E.g. you can convert the documents to make them readable for visually-impaired persons. Just make sure you give proper attribution in all such cases (see below).

Give attribution. You are supposed to mention author of the document when quoting from it or using it in any similar way. Use appropriate text for that, which will usually be along the lines of Evolveum or docs.evolveum.com. Please, provide a link to the original document whenever you can.

Keep us free from any liability. The documentation is provided "AS IS". While we make reasonable effort to main quality of the documentation, we are people too. We can make mistakes, we can omit details, we may forget to update outdated information. Please bear with us. If you find a problem, let us know. We fill fix it as soon as possible. However, we make no guarantees. If bet your fortune on the information in the documentation, it is your responsibility to make sure the information is correct, complete and up-to-date.

Copy significant part of the documentation for profit. You must not take our documentation, make a book out of it and sell the book. If you want to do that, please contact us. We can grant you a special license in exchange for reasonable royalties. You must not download documents from our site, convert it into a manual for your commercial project and deliver that to the customer. Linking to our documentation is OK, copying, modifying and reformatting it for your project is not OK. If you want to do that, please contact us. We can agree on a license in exchange for a reasonable share of your profit. You must not use significant parts of our documentation to compile an operation manual for your service provider company. If you want to do that, please contact us. We can negotiate a reasonable license that can cover your use case.

Modify the documentation and distribute modified versions. If you modify the documentation, we no longer know that it is correct. It may confuse or mislead the users. Documentation is not code, there is no simple way how to test the documentation. Therefore we want to keep some degree of control over the quality of the documentation. If you would like to reuse the documentation for your project, convert or translate the documentation, please contact us. We will find a way how this could work. We would just like to have an opportunity to assure the quality of the final result.

Translate the documentation. We fully support internationalization and translation efforts. However, we like to keep some overview over such efforts, mostly to maintain quality and protect or reputation. We usually provide royalty-free licenses for translation, as long as your translation is also made available under the terms of CC BY-NC-ND license.

Use significant parts of the documentation in your academic or not-for-profit project. We would gladly grant you royalty-free license in such case. We just want to make sure there are reasonable limitations for commercial abuse of the documentation.

You can use the code for pretty much any purpose, including commercial purposes.

You can redistribute the code, even modify it. Just maintain the copyright and include license statement.

You must not hold us liable. The code is provided as it is, take it or leave it. It is your responsibility to make sure it works for you, not ours.

You are not granted any right to use our trademarks.

Distribute modified source code if you make any modifications ("copyleft" license).