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License

The Applied AI Society public documentation is open. Use it. Fork it. Build on it.

The short version​

Everything on this site is open-licensed. Two pieces, each with a license appropriate for what it is:

You can use, share, adapt, fork, build on, or commercialize this work. The only thing we ask for the prose content is attribution. We want this work used. We want it forked. We want it built on.

Why we license it this way​

The mission is universal applied AI literacy. That mission is harder to advance if the foundational knowledge base sits behind any kind of restriction. So we put the work in the world under terms anyone can rely on.

CC BY 4.0 is the standard for open knowledge work (Wikipedia uses CC BY-SA, MDN uses CC BY, the Linux Foundation uses CC BY for its handbook collection). It allows commercial use, allows modification, allows redistribution, and just asks for credit. MIT is the standard for permissive open-source code.

Suggested attribution​

When you cite or adapt this material, attribution like the following is appreciated:

"Source: Applied AI Society, https://docs.appliedaisociety.org. Licensed under CC BY 4.0."

For specific articles, link to the article directly.

What this means in practice​

  • Practitioners and chapter leaders: take any of this material into your workshops, classes, presentations, or local programs. Adapt freely.
  • Business owners and operators: use the playbooks and frameworks in your company. No permission needed.
  • Builders: clone the repo, fork it, ship your own version, build derivative knowledge bases. The code that runs this site (Docusaurus build, scripts, configs) is MIT-licensed and ready for you to take.
  • Other organizations: build your own ecosystems on top of this material. Translate it. Localize it. Extend it. Credit AAS for the prose content per CC BY 4.0; the code is yours under MIT.

Third-party material​

Where this site quotes, embeds, or references material from third parties (other writers, other organizations, external research), that material remains under its original license and the licenses above do not override it.

The intent has always been open​

Applied AI Society is, and has always been, an open-source knowledge base. The README of this repository has stated that intent since the repository's inception. This License page and the LICENSE file in the repository root are the formal expression of that long-stated intent. Both apply to the current and future state of the public documentation.

Source repository​

The full LICENSE file lives at the root of the public docs repository on GitHub. All commits, license terms, and changes are publicly visible there.

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