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I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence
You are free:
- To share – copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
- To remix – adapt, transform and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
Under the following conditions:
- Attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- ShareAlike – If you adapt, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same licence as the original.
No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the licence permits.
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International and Legal Code
Creative Commons Zero
This file is made available under the CC0 1.0 Universal licence
No Copyright:
- This file is released into the Public Domain.
- You can copy, modify and distribute the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.
Public Domain (Self)
This file is in Public Domain
I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide.
In case this is not legally possible:
I grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.
Public Domain (old 70+ years)
This work has been identified, with reasonable enquiry, as being in the public domain in the United Kingdom.
This is because its term of copyright has expired. In the United Kingdom works fall into the public domain 70 years from the death of the author. If the author is unknown it falls into the public domain 70 years after it was created. This work is also in the public domain in countries where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less. 70 years ago = 1954
Comparison table between public domain in the UK and US (hover over)| Criteria | PD in United Kingdom if | PD in United States as of 1st January 1996 if |
|---|---|---|
| Work was published by the British Government or a crown agency (see {{PD-UKGov}}) |
Created prior to 1974 | Created prior to 1946 but the URAA may be inapplicable to some post 1946 worksnote |
| A work by an identifiable author | Published by an author who died prior to 1954 | Published by an author who died prior to 1926 |
| Published work by unknown author that cannot be determined by reasonable research. | Published prior to 1954 | Published prior to 1926 |
| Unpublished work where neither the author or original publication can be determined by reasonable research. | Created prior to 1954 | Created prior to 1926 |