Take part—Ayewa is open source

Open source summary.

Ayewa's listings and the other textual content provided on this website are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Our source code is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

The legally meaningful versions of the licenses are available at the links above, but you can find further details regarding these licenses at the bottom of this page.

Taking part

Help build the Ayewa database.

If you know of a climate change-related resource that Ayewa should list, please send us whatever details you have.
If you notice anything unclear, incomplete, or wrong anywhere, please suggest a correction or edit to make it better.

Contribute suggestions for new listings or edits here.

Help make Ayewa's website better.

And help make Ayewa multilingual and international.

You can send use the same suggestions form to send us bug reports, feature requests, and other ideas for improving the website .

However, we'd prefer you submit that feedback on GitHub. Filing a GitHub issue permits back-and-forth discussions with you about the details of your suggestion. Also, other people can add their own views.

The source code for the Ayewa website will soon be posted on GitHub. We will include instructions for installing a working version of the site so you can develop Ayewa on your own computer. There will also be guidelines for developers who want to participate in improving the way Ayewa works and looks.

What you can freely use: Ayewa's content and source code

Textual content

We license the material under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, the full terms of which are here.

The language at the above link has the actual, legally meaningful terms of the license. For non-legal purposes, here is a summary of how the material is licensed:

You are free to:

Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

...under the following terms:

You must provide the name of the creator and attribution parties, a copyright notice, a license notice, a disclaimer notice, and a link to Ayewa.

Attribution — You must give credit to Ayewa as the source of the material, state that the material is copyrighted by us, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes have been made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests that Ayewa endorses you or your use of the material.
ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.
No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Ayewa cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

Source code

The source code for this website is copyright 2021, Ayewa Earth Alliance and is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

What you can't use freely

Ayewa licenses our own textual data and source code permissively, as we will get to in a moment.

However, rights to some items are reserved by their copyright holders. Except when explicitly noted, the following items cannot be used without the consent of their copyright holders:

photographs
music and video recordings
graphics and artwork, including Ayewa's logos and brand marks