OSGeoLive Copyright¶
OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB thumb drive or Virtual Machine based on Lubuntu, that allows you to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. It is composed entirely of free software, allowing it to be freely distributed, duplicated and passed around.
License of OSGeo-Live¶
The OSGeo-Live project is distributed under LGPL license v2.1. All documentation is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
OSGeo-Live is composed entirely of free software, free data and free documentation, allowing it to be freely distributed, duplicated and passed around. The licenses of all the packaged projects are summarized further on this page.
Project Overviews and Overview Translations, are provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Quickstarts and Quickstart Translations, are provided under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Documentation might also be available under other licenses, as listed below.
Software on OSGeoLive is available under various Free and Open Source licenses, as listed in the Project Overviews.
Data on OSGeoLive is available under various Open Licences.
Attributing OSGeoLive Documentation¶
As per the terms of the Creative Commons license, if you include OSGeoLive documentation into a new document, you will need to attribute the contributors. Further, if Quickstarts are included, which are licenced under the CC By-SA license, then the new document will also need to be licenced under the CC By-SA.
Note that images are not necessarily provided under the same CC license as the text; check with the authors.
You may use attribution text similar to one of the following:
Verbose, suitable for a 100 page thesis:
This document includes content from the “gvSIG Quickstart” created by Simon Cropper under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported licence available from the OSGeoLive project, gvSIG Desktop Quickstart, and downloaded on 25 July 2011. The original work was translated from English to German.
Concise CC-By-SA and attribution:
© 2011 [Your Name] under a CC By SA License. [Derived from|Includes|Extends] OSGeoLive documentation by OSGeoLive contributors.
Alternative Concise CC-By and attribution:
© 2011 [Your Name]. [Derived from|Includes|Extends] OSGeoLive Project Overviews by OSGeoLive contributors.
Minimum (for Project Overviews), attribution only:
This document includes OSGeoLive Project Overviews by OSGeoLive contributors.
Documentation Contributors¶
The table below credits the contributors for each of the documents on OSGeoLive.
Document |
Author(s) |
Reviewers(s) |
License(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
52nSOS_overview |
Eike Hinderk Jürrens (e.h.juerrens@52north.org); Daniel Nüst (d.nuest@52north.org); Simon Jirka (s.jirka@52north.org) |
Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
R_overview |
OSGeoLive |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
cesium_overview |
Balasubramaniam Natarajan |
Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
deegree_overview |
Johannes Wilden, Markus Schneider, Danilo Bretschneider |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
eoxserver_overview |
OSGeoLive; Stephan Meissl, Stephan Krause |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech; Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
gdal_overview |
OSGeoLive |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech; Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
geomoose_overview |
OSGeoLive; Bob Basques |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech; Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
geonetwork_overview |
OSGeoLive |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech; Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
geonode_overview |
Barbara Angerer, Angelos Tzotsos |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
geos_overview |
OSGeoLive; Frank Warmerdam |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
geoserver_overview |
Ian Turton; Frank Gasdorf |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech; Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
geotools_overview |
Jody Garnett |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
gmt_overview |
Hamish Bowman; Paul Wessel |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
gpsprune_overview |
activityworkshop |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
grass_overview |
Hamish Bowman |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech; Markus Neteler; Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
gvsig_overview |
Jorge Sanz; Manuel Madrid; Mario Carrera |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
istsos_overview |
Massimiliano Cannata, Milan Antonovic, SUPSI |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
josm_overview |
OSGeoLive; Javier Sanchez, GeoNaTec |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
jts_overview |
Jody Garnett |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
jupyter_overview |
jupyter developers team; Massimo Di Stefano |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
leaflet_overview |
Johan Van de Wauw; Vladimir Agafonkin |
Cameron Shorter; Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
mapbender_overview |
Astrid Emde |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
mapnik_overview |
Dane Springmeyer |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech; Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
mapproxy_overview |
Oliver Tonnhofer |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech; Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
mapserver_overview |
Alan Boudreault, Steve Lime |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech; Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
marble_overview |
Hamish Bowman, Sergey Popov |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech; Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
naturalearth_overview |
OSGeoLive |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
nc_dataset_overview |
Hamish Bowman |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
netcdf_dataset_overview |
Brian Hamlin |
Cameron Shorter |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
opencpn_overview |
Dave Register; Hamish Bowman |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
openjump_overview |
OSGeoLive |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
openlayers_overview |
Chris Schmidt; OSGeoLive; Roald de Wit; Antonio Santiago; Bart van den Eijnden |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
osm_dataset_overview |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
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osm_overview |
Hamish Bowman |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech; Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons |
otb_overview |
OSGeoLive |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
pgrouting_overview |
Daniel Kastl |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech; Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
postgis_overview |
OSGeoLive; Barry Rowlingson |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech; Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
proj4_overview |
OSGeoLive; Mike Adair, Julien Moquet |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
pycsw_overview |
OSGeoLive; Tom Kralidis; Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
pywps_overview |
OSGeoLive; Jachym Cepicky, Jorge de Jesus, Tom Kralidis |
Cameron Shorter |
Creative Commons |
qgis_mapserver_overview |
OSGeoLive |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech; Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
qgis_overview |
OSGeoLive |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech; Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo; Nicolas Roelandt |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
rasdaman_overview |
Peter Baumann |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
saga_overview |
OSGeoLive |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
spatialite_overview |
Pirmin Kalberer |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech; Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
zoo-project_overview |
Gérald Fenoy |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
zygrib_overview |
Hamish Bowman |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
52nSOS_quickstart |
Simon Jirka (s.jirka@52north.org) |
Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
R_quickstart |
Barry Rowlingson |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
|
cesium_quickstart |
Balasubramaniam Natarajan |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech; Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
deegree_quickstart |
Johannes Wilden, Danilo Bretschneider, Torsten Friebe |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
|
eoxserver_quickstart |
OSGeoLive ; Stephan Meissl; Stephan Krause |
Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
gdal_quickstart |
Astrid Emde, material from Frank Warmedam’s RasterTutorial |
Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
geomoose_quickstart |
Bob Basques |
Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
geonetwork_quickstart |
GeoNetwork Community |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech; Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
geonode_quickstart |
Barbara Angerer |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
|
geoserver_quickstart |
Ian Turton; Frank Gasdorf |
Angelos Tzotsos; Cameron Shorter |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
gmt_quickstart |
Hamish Bowman |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
|
gpsprune_quickstart |
activityworkshop |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
|
grass_quickstart |
Hamish Bowman |
Markus Neteler; Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
gvsig_quickstart |
Simon Cropper |
Jorge Sanz; Manuel Madrid; Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
internationalisation_quickstart |
OSGeoLive; Frank Gasdorf; Cameron Shorter |
Cameron Shorter |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
istsos_quickstart |
Massimiliano Cannata, Milan Antonovic - SUPSI |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
jupyter_quickstart |
Massimo Di Stefano |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
leaflet_quickstart |
Vladimir Agafonkin, adopted for live dvd by Johan Van de Wauw |
Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
|
mapbender_quickstart |
OSGeoLive; Astrid Emde |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
|
mapnik_quickstart |
OSGeoLive; Dane Springmeyer |
Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
mapproxy_quickstart |
Oliver Tonnhofer |
Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
mapserver_quickstart |
OSGeoLive; Alan Boudreault; Steve Lime |
Stephan Meissl; Cameron Shorter, Jirotech; Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
marble_quickstart |
Sergey Popov |
Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
opencpn_quickstart |
Hamish Bowman |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
|
openjump_quickstart |
OSGeoLive; Landon Blake; Stefan Steiniger |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
|
openlayers_quickstart |
Antonio Santiago; Chris Schmidt; Bart van den Eijnden |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
osgeolive_install_quickstart |
OSGeoLive; Cameron Shorter |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
|
osgeolive_quickstart |
OSGeoLive; Cameron Shorter, Hamish Bowman |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
osm_quickstart |
Hamish Bowman |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
|
otb_quickstart |
OSGeoLive; Manuel Grizonnet |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
|
pgrouting_quickstart |
Daniel Kastl; Regina Obe |
Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
postgis_quickstart |
Barry Rowlingson; Astrid Emde; Regina Obe |
Argyros Argyridis; Cameron Shorter, Jirotech; Nicolas Roelandt; Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
proj4_quickstart |
OSGeoLive; Julien Moquet |
Vicky Vergara |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
pycsw_quickstart |
OSGeoLive; Tom Kralidis; Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
|
pywps_quickstart |
OSGeoLive; Jachym Cepicky, Tom Kralidis |
Cameron Shorter |
Creative Commons Attribution |
qgis_mapserver_quickstart |
OSGeoLive; Pirmin Kalberer |
Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
qgis_quickstart |
OSGeoLive; Pirmin Kalberer; Hamish Bowman; Zoltan Siki |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech; Nicolas Roelandt; Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
rasdaman_quickstart |
Peter Baumann (p.baumann@jacobs-university.de) |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
|
saga_quickstart |
Johan Van de Wauw; Zoltan Siki |
Angelos Tzotsos |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
spatialite_quickstart |
OSGeoLive; Micha Silver |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech; Angelos Tzotsos, OSGeo |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
usb_quickstart |
OSGeoLive; Alex Mandel, Cameron Shorter |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
virtualbox_quickstart |
OSGeoLive; Cameron Shorter |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
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virtualization_quickstart |
OSGeoLive; Micha Silver |
Cameron Shorter, Jirotech; Stephen Woodbridge |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
vmware_quickstart |
OSGeoLive; Micha Silver |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
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zoo-project_quickstart |
Gérald Fenoy |
Angelos Tzotsos; Cameron Shorter, Jirotech |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
zygrib_quickstart |
Hamish Bowman |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
Disclaimer¶
The contents of OSGeoLive are provided by the copyright holders and contributors “as is” and any express or implied warranties, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of the merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose are disclaimed. In no event shall the copyright owner or contributors be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential damages (including, but not limited to, procurement of substitute goods or services; loss of use, date, or profits; or business interruption) however caused and on any theory of liability, whether in contract, strict liablity, or tort (including negligence or otherwise) arising in any way out of the use of this software, even if advised of the possibility of such damage.