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This license gives everyone as much permission to work with this software as possible, while protecting contributors from liability and requiring credit for their work.
In order to receive this license, you have to agree to its rules. Those rules are both obligations under that agreement and conditions to your license. Don't do anything with this software that triggers a rule you can't or won't follow.
Make sure everyone who gets a copy of any part of this software from you, with or without changes, also gets the text of this license or a link to https://github.com/creditstxt/code-credit-license.
Give this software and each contributor credit for contributing to goods or services that you develop, test, produce, or provide with the help of this software.
In general, give credit in such a way that others can freely and readily find a written notice identifying this software, by name, as a contribution to your goods or services, as well as each contributor, by name, as a contributor to this software. Do not do anything to stop others from sharing, publishing, or using those credits.
If widespread convention dictates a particular way to give credit for your kind of goods or services, such as by end credit for a film, citation for an academic paper, acknowledgment for a book, or billing for a show, then follow that convention. For software provided to users to run on their own computers, give credit in documentation, notice files, and any "about" page or screen. For software provided as a web service, give credit in credits.txt
according to https://creditstxt.com.
If contributors give their names or the name of this software along with the software according to a widespread convention, such as in software package metadata or on an "about" page or screen, you may rely on the names they give that way to be accurate and complete. If contributors don't give names that way, but include a link to a homepage for this software, investigate that homepage for names to credit. If contributors give neither names to credit nor a link to a homepage, you do not have to do independent research to find names to credit.
On written request from a contributor, remove their name from the credits for your goods or services going forward. On written request from all credited contributors to this software, do the same for the name of this software.
Each contributor licenses you to do everything with this software that would otherwise infringe that contributor's copyright in it.
Each contributor licenses you to do everything with this software that would otherwise infringe any patent claims they can license or become able to license.
If anyone notifies you in writing that you have not complied with Notices or Give Credit, you can keep your license by taking all practical steps to comply within thirty days after the notice. If you do not do so, your license ends immediately.
No contributor can revoke this license.
As far as the law allows, this software comes as is, without any warranty or condition, and no contributor will be liable to anyone for any damages related to this software or this license, under any kind of legal claim.