Unless noted otherwise, all work on this website is licenced under Creative Commons.

Creative Commons licenses give you the ability to dictate how others may exercise your copyright rights—such as the right of others to copy your work, make derivative works or adaptations of your work, to distribute your work and/or make money from your work.

The specific Creative Commons restrictions of use of content on this website are:

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

Share Alike. You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to this license that governs our work.

 Attribution. We let others copy, distribute, display, and perform our copyrighted work — and derivative works based upon it — but only if you give credit the way we request.

Giving credit to us (Attribution) is defined as:

Online work:

• you must include the title of the work with a link to the download page and "by the WeatherMaker project" which will link to the homepage of the our website. For example: Golden Toad Mobile by The WeatherMaker Project
• If using less than 60% of the work, use a decription of the part of the work you are using rather than the title eg Golden Toad design by The WeatherMaker Project
• If using more than 60% of the work, you must keep intact all credits and sponsorship information that is part of the work
• Font size and colour must be clearly visible and legible.
  

Offline work:

• you must include the title of the work with a link to  the WeatherMaker homepage. For example: Golden Toad Mobile by www.weathermaker.org
• If using less than 60% of the work, use a decription of the part of the work you are using rather than the title. For example: Golden Toad design by www.weathermaker.org
• If using more than 60% of the work, you must keep intact all credits and sponsorship information that is part of the work
• Font size and colour must be clearly visible and legible.

This means...

As long as your credit as above, you can copy, distribute, display, perform, cut, mix, remix, edit and add to the work. If you use it as part of your work, you may sell your work without the payment of royalties.

Why Creative Commons rather than traditional copyright?

Climate change is the largest issue facing mankind. We need to innovate to create change.... and fast. The best way to do this is share ideas and innovation so others can build on it. Creative commons assists in speeding up the development of ideas, innovation and the application of these.

Creative Commons will allow all the resources created as part of the WeatherMaker Project to be reused, repurposed and redistributed to further spread the message of climate change and it’s impacts. This will maximise the overall effectiveness of the project.

For example...
Education organisations could use the content from the Weathermaker project to create lesson plans. They would be free to distribute them to schools and to students. The schools and individual students could then use these resources, customising and building on the materials.

plus our mums taught us it is nice to share....