# License & Attribution

## CourseForge Studio Licensing Terms

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## 📜 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

### with Additional Educational Use Terms

**Copyright © 2025 Angela Westmoreland**

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## ✅ You Are Free To:

### **Share**
Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format

### **Adapt**
Remix, transform, and build upon the material

**The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.**

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## 📋 Under the Following Terms:

### **Attribution (BY)**
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.

**Required Attribution:**
```
CourseForge Studio by Angela Westmoreland
Fayetteville Technical Community College (2025)
Available at: https://amlw05.github.io/courseforge-studio/
Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
```

**For Modified Works:**
```
Based on CourseForge Studio by Angela Westmoreland, (2025)
Original: https://amlw05.github.io/courseforge-studio/
Modified by [Your Name] on [Date]
Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
```

### **NonCommercial (NC)**
You may not use the material for commercial purposes.

**What counts as commercial use:**
- ❌ Selling access to this toolkit or derivatives
- ❌ Using content in paid workshops without permission
- ❌ Incorporating into commercial products/services
- ❌ Charging for consultations based solely on this content

**What's allowed:**
- ✅ Use in educational institutions (public or private)
- ✅ Use in free professional development
- ✅ Use in non-profit training programs
- ✅ Adaptation for your own institution's use
- ✅ Sharing freely with colleagues

**Need commercial use?** Contact westmora@faytechcc.edu for permission.

### **ShareAlike (SA)**
If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

**This means:**
- Any derivative works must also be:
  - ✅ Attributed to original creator
  - ✅ NonCommercial
  - ✅ ShareAlike
  - ✅ Freely available

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## 🎓 Educational Use Provisions

### **Encouraged Uses**

This toolkit is **specifically designed for educational use** and we encourage:

✅ **Institutional Adaptation**
- Customize for your college/university
- Add institution-specific processes
- Integrate with your LMS
- Modify to fit your context

✅ **Professional Development**
- Use in faculty training
- Share at conferences (with attribution)
- Include in workshops
- Reference in presentations

✅ **Course Development**
- Apply tools to your courses
- Use templates and frameworks
- Adapt resources for students
- Integrate into your design process

✅ **Collaborative Improvement**
- Suggest enhancements
- Report issues
- Share successful adaptations
- Contribute to community

### **Attribution in Practice**

**For Presentations:**
```
Slide footer: "Resources from CourseForge Studio by A. Westmoreland"
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**For Institutional Adaptations:**
```
"Adapted from CourseForge Studio (Westmoreland, 2025) 
for [Your Institution Name]"
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**For Publications:**
```
Westmoreland, A. (2025). CourseForge Studio. 
Fayetteville Technical Community College.
https://amlw05.github.io/courseforge-studio/
```

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## 🚫 Restrictions

### **What You Cannot Do:**

❌ **Remove or Obscure Attribution**
- Must maintain creator credit
- Cannot claim as solely your work
- Must link back to original

❌ **Commercial Exploitation**
- Cannot sell this resource
- Cannot charge for access
- Cannot use in paid products (without permission)

❌ **Misrepresentation**
- Cannot imply endorsement
- Cannot suggest official affiliation (unless you have it)
- Cannot claim institutional authority

❌ **Violate ShareAlike**
- Cannot make derivatives proprietary
- Must keep adaptations open
- Must use same license

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## ⚖️ Legal Details

### **Full License Text**

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

To view a copy of this license, visit:
**http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/**

Or send a letter to:
Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA

### **No Warranties**

This toolkit 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 author be liable for any claim, damages, or other liability** arising from the use of this toolkit.

### **Severability**

If any provision of this license is found to be unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect.

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## 🤝 Third-Party Content

CourseForge Studio incorporates and references:

### **Frameworks & Standards**
- **Higher Education Best Practices** - 7th Edition Standards (industry standards)
- **Universal Design for Learning (UDL)** - CAST framework
- **Community of Inquiry** - CoI framework (Garrison et al.)
- **Bloom's Taxonomy** - Public domain (revised Anderson & Krathwohl)
- **TPACK, SAMR, Triple E** - Educational frameworks (cited appropriately)

### **Open Educational Resources**
- Links to freely available resources
- Citations to published research
- References to institutional materials (with permission)

**All third-party content:**
- ✅ Properly attributed
- ✅ Used under fair use or with permission
- ✅ Clearly distinguished from original content
- ✅ Links provided to original sources

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## 💼 FTCC Institutional Context

### **Relationship to FTCC**

CourseForge Studio is:
- ✅ Created by FTCC employee (Angela Westmoreland)
- ✅ Informed by FTCC processes (HQCDP)
- ✅ Supports FTCC mission

**However:**
- ⚠️ Not an official FTCC product
- ⚠️ Not endorsed by FTCC administration (unless stated)
- ⚠️ Not representative of FTCC policies
- ⚠️ Creator's professional work, shared openly

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## 🌍 International Use

This license applies globally. Users outside the United States may use CourseForge Studio under the same terms, adapted to local copyright laws where applicable.

**For questions about international use:** westmora@faytechcc.edu

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## 📧 Contact & Permissions

### **For Permissions:**
- 💼 **Commercial use inquiries:** westmora@faytechcc.edu
- 🎓 **Institutional partnerships:** westmora@faytechcc.edu
- 📚 **Publication permissions:** westmora@faytechcc.edu
- 🤝 **Collaboration opportunities:** westmora@faytechcc.edu

### **For Support:**
- 🐛 **Bug reports:** Submit via GitHub Issues
- 💡 **Suggestions:** Submit via GitHub Issues
- ❓ **Usage questions:** westmora@faytechcc.edu
- 📖 **Documentation:** See README.md

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## 🙏 Acknowledgment

By using CourseForge Studio, you acknowledge that:

1. ✅ You have read and understand this license
2. ✅ You agree to abide by its terms
3. ✅ You will provide proper attribution
4. ✅ You will respect the NonCommercial and ShareAlike provisions
5. ✅ You understand this is provided without warranty

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## 📊 License Summary

**Quick Reference:**

| Permission | Status | Notes |
|------------|--------|-------|
| View online | ✅ YES | Free access for all |
| Download | ✅ YES | Keep local copies |
| Use in teaching | ✅ YES | Educational use encouraged |
| Adapt for institution | ✅ YES | Must attribute |
| Share with colleagues | ✅ YES | Must attribute |
| Use in free PD | ✅ YES | Must attribute |
| Sell access | ❌ NO | NonCommercial |
| Use in paid products | ❌ NO | Need permission |
| Remove attribution | ❌ NO | Required |
| Make proprietary | ❌ NO | Must stay open |

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## 🔄 Version History

- **v1.0** (January 2025) - Initial license terms
  - CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 with FTCC educational use provisions

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**Questions about this license?** Contact: westmora@faytechcc.edu

**View the official CC license:** http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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*CourseForge Studio - Where Exceptional Learning Experiences Are Forged*

**Copyright © 2025 Angela Westmoreland**  
**Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0**