I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff.Esther Dyson
This page outlines the various legal, moral and contractual facets of the data on patrickaudley.com and blackcat.ca. Collective all the data refered to here are the works.
Copyright
Unless otherwise noted (using specific reference in to the data in question or below) all images, reproductions, textual data, HTML, source code, underlying data structures, videos and multimedia, papers, documents and other forms of information contained on patrickaudley.com and blackcat.ca are © 1996-2012 Patrick Audley.
Exclusions
The following items are excluded as they are both third party productions and are reproductions of public data.
- Archived websites and temporal snapshots of parts of the internet.
- Public software used on the site (like jQuery), for a list of such see About this Site.
Creative Commons
Most of the works (unless otherwise indicated specifically or excluded above) are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Canada. This license allows you to share these works, remix them, print them on t-shirts and generally use them in weird and wonderful ways. There are three conditions you have to accept to use the works under this license:
- You must attribute the works to me in some end consumer visible way (though not prominently, use your best judgement based on the ratio of the work used to original content).
- You may not use the works for commericial purposes.
- You must share a like. Any derivatives of the works must be licensed under the same or similar terms.
The full legalese of the license can be found here in both English and French.
Commerical Use
If the above license is too restrictive or you would like different terms, please contact Patrick Audley for alternative licensing options. Several commericial licenses are available.
GPL v2
Some of the source code and documents are additionally licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 2. This is a much more permissive license which allows the specific works released under it to be used freely in open source projects. Please note, I do not support or use GPL Version 3 or the GNU Free Documentation License because I don't think either are good licenses or further open source in a meaninful way.