# License Terms

Copyright in most TEI Consortium materials, including the TEI Guidelines, is held by the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, and these materials are made available under the terms and conditions of both Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License and a BSD 2-Clause license.

You may choose the license that is most appropriate for the use you intend to make of the TEI material. Hence it is made available under both the CC+BY and BSD-2 licences. The CC+BY licence is generally appropriate for usages which treat TEI content as data or documentation. The BSD-2 licence is generally appropriate for usage of TEI content in a software environment. For further information or clarification, please contact the TEI Consortium: info AT tei-c.org.

This license permits a wide range of uses, as long as attribution is preserved, including the following:

 * Users may make copies of TEI materials, whether the XML source or the derived products (XHTML, PDF, DTD, RELAX NG, etc.) either digitally, with a photocopier, by audio recording, or by any other means.
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The following activities are all allowed and encouraged:

 * Downloading a copy of the HTML version of the TEI Guidelines
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 * Making derived software that uses the TEI materials as a source

But make sure to provide reasonable attribution back to the TEI Consortium, for example by citing this repository.

## BSD 2-Clause

If you choose to use the BSD 2-Clause license, these conditions require including the following:

Copyright 2011 TEI Consortium. All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
 * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, 
   this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
 * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, 
   this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation 
   and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

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