ToL Policies: Copyright Policies
Creative Commons Deed for Select Tree of Life Materials
Some
of the content provided by the Tree of Life project is licensed to the
public under a Creative Commons License. This license applies only to
materials that are clearly marked with the Creative Commons icon 
.
For the terms and conditions of use of other ToL materials, please refer
to the page about Tree of Life Copyright Policies.
Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0
You are free:- to copy, distribute, and display Tree of Life materials released under this license
- to make derivative works
Attribution. You must give credit to the copyright holder and the Tree of Life Web Project.
Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
- You must document changes made to the original file.
- For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work.
- Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.
This is a human-readable summary of the Legal Code (the full license).
Disclaimer
The Commons Deed is not a license. It is simply a handy reference for understanding the Legal Code (the full license) — it is a human-readable expression of some of its key terms. Think of it as the user-friendly interface to the Legal Code beneath. This Deed itself has no legal value, and its contents do not appear in the actual license.
Creative Commons is not a law firm and does not provide legal services. Distributing of, displaying of, or linking to this Commons Deed does not create an attorney-client relationship.