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What license is applied to the content in Open Procedures?
Open Procedures models are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0. This license is considered as the most open license (and by open, they mean really open–free to copy, distribute, adapt and derive the work for both commercial or non-commercial purposes) while ensuring attribution to the author.
Licensing your content under this license means that your content will be publicly available. However there are situations in which you might want to keep your procedures private. If this is the case you can take a look at metoCube's web site (metoCube is the software powering Open Procedures).
By the way, the folks at Creative Commons are doing a great job for promoting Open Content. You might consider supporting them.
Content in Open Procedures is part of the Open Knowledge movement and the Creative Commons Attribution License is conformant with the principles laid out in the open knowledge definition.
How can I use content in Open Procedures?
What does this mean in practice? This means that you can reuse procedures in the repository.
If you are reading this, you probably looking for a/some procedure/s (or even a complete methodology) to implement in your organization or for your personal use. You are free to use any procedure in the repository in any way you want as long as you give credit to the author. For example, you can:
Some Open Procedures authors offer professional services that can help you save time and resources implementing their methodologies. Look at the author information at the bottom right of any Open Procedure model to see if the author offers this kind of professional services.
Reuse and attribution
If you reuse Open Procedures content, in order to comply with the attribution requirements of the license, you must include the
If you cite Open Procedures content, use the following citation style to comply with the attribution requirements for the license:
Author name + Content title + URL