Instructional Material

All instructional material is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. 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.

Under the following terms:

• 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.

With the understanding that:

• You do not have to comply with the license for elements of the material in the public domain or where your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation.

• No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material.

For the full legal text of this license, please see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.

Software

Except where otherwise noted, the example programs and other software provided are made available under the OSI-approved MIT license.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Using the “Data Carpentry” trademark

As detailed in the Instructional Material and Software sections, everyone is free to use the materials provided here for running courses as long as they provide attribution to the original source.

“Data Carpentry”, the name, is a registered trademark. We are in the process of developing criteria under which a college/university course may use the “Data Carpentry” name (in the same way that there are criteria for using the name for self-organized workshops). For now, if you are interested in including “Data Carpentry” in the name of your course please email Ethan White at datacarpentrysemester@weecology.org.