Copyrights
This page is meant to summarize the licensing status of the project text, attachments, third-party assets, and embedded resources.
There is currently a maintainer-facing inconsistency that should be resolved soon: the repository root LICENSE is CC0 1.0, while the homepage and some documents still mention CC-BY-SA 2.0 or page-level exceptions. Until that is clarified, readers should treat reuse rules conservatively.
Suggested conservative interpretation for now:
- The root
LICENSEis the repository-level default statement. - If a page includes its own source, restriction, or exception note, that page-level note should take priority.
- Third-party images, PDFs, embedded tools, and external resources should not be assumed to share the same license as the handbook text.
- If reuse, redistribution, or commercial use matters, verify the original source instead of relying on a single sentence in this repository.
Maintenance TODOs
TODO: Align the repository root LICENSE, the homepage footer text that says CC-BY-SA, the CC0 note in others/ask-the-smart-way.md, and any other page-level exception statements.
TODO: Add source, license, and reuse notes for third-party assets, especially images, PDFs, embedded components, app-related resources, and mirrored external content.
TODO: Document the default contribution license for text, images, tables, and scripts, plus the copyright checks maintainers should perform before merging.
