Copyright & Open Licensing
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Content ownership and open licensing terms.
Note: This English version is a translation provided for your convenience. The German version is the authoritative and legally binding original.
Our license: Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0
We believe good educational materials should be freely accessible. Unless otherwise indicated, we publish our own content – texts, images, materials, and resources – under the Creative Commons license "Attribution – NonCommercial 4.0 International" (CC BY-NC 4.0).
You can find the full license text at: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
What you may do – free of charge and without quantity limits
- Share – copy and redistribute our material in any format or medium.
- Adapt – remix, transform, translate, and build upon the material, for example for your own teaching.
Under these conditions
- Attribution – Name "UnitEd – unite education e.V." as the source and, where possible, link to uniteducation.net and to the license. (We appreciate every mention – it helps others find free materials.)
- NonCommercial – The material may not be used for commercial purposes, i.e. it may not be sold or included in a paid offering.
- No additional restrictions – You may not apply legal terms or technological measures (e.g. copy protection) that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
Commercial use
Commercial use is only possible with our prior written consent. Get in touch – we are open to collaborations: hello@uniteducation.net.
Contributing
Anyone can suggest and contribute content – for example via our community or on GitHub. To keep our materials freely usable, the following applies to contributions:
- You confirm that the contribution is your own work or that you hold the necessary rights, and
- you make your contribution available under the same license (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Source code
Our source code is publicly available on GitHub (github.com/uniteducation-net). Unless otherwise stated in the respective repository, the same principle applies: free use, modification, and sharing for non-commercial purposes with attribution; commercial use only with consent.
Name and logo
The name "UnitEd", our logo, and our other brand marks are excluded from the CC license. They may be used to credit the source, but not to suggest an official affiliation, partnership, or endorsement by us.
Third-party content
Where we use third-party material, the original license indicated at the source applies. We identify such content accordingly.
Note on AI and translations
Parts of our content were created with the help of AI or machine-translated and reviewed by volunteers. Where appropriate, we mark this. Errors are still possible – we welcome any pointers.
Thank you!
- unDraw – Many of our illustrations come from unDraw, which makes its wonderful illustrations available free of charge. A big thank you!
- And thank you to all the volunteers, translators, and contributors who make our content possible. 💙