I used to have
© 2017 Copyright Darpan Dodiya
everywhere to prevent misuse of the content I post here on this website.
Today, [5th August, 2017], I’ve decided to part ways with that licence.
Why?
There was no practical impact of the © Copyright mark. Images were still getting stolen by those pseudo travel blogs writing posts on things like “10 Reasons Why You…Blah..Blah..Blah.”
Plus, I’m supporter of the Open-source model. Time to transit to open license.
Enter CC BY-SA 4.0
Now on, all the content you see on this website is cc-wiki (aka cc-by-sa) licensed, intended to be shared and remixed. No copyrights whatsoever.
You are free to:
Share
Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
Adapt
Remix, transform, and build upon the material
for any purpose, even commercially.
For non-commercial usage, I will be happy to provide you high resolution images and videos on request. Contact me here or drop me an email.
Attribution Required
The licence while being permissive, does require attribution:
Attribution — ” You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, 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. ”
Let me clarify about attribution. If you reuse this content, you’re required to:
- Visually indicate that the content is from this website in some way. It doesn’t have to be obnoxious; a discreet text blurb is fine.
- Hyperlink directly to the original source.
- By “directly”, I mean each hyperlink must point directly to this domain in standard HTML visible even with JavaScript disabled, and not use a tinyurl or any other form of obfuscation or redirection.
- Furthermore, the links must not be nofollowed.
ShareAlike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.
More About CC BY-SA 3.0
You can find human-readable summary of the aforementioned licence at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Here’s the legal version: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode
This StackOverflow post helped me to draft the attribution required part.
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