Creative Commons Licensing for Blastersmiths UK

We've been a little lax on getting to this, I mentioned in my earlier post that small things like this tend to get put on hold as bigger challenges throw themselves at you. Well, a few disputes have reared their heads in other places over the last couple of weeks so we thought we'd tighten things up our end and sort things out.

We have an open ethos here at Blastersmiths UK and we aim to make a living but also to help the communities we work with grow and develop. We've developed a content licensing policy that reflects that Creative Commons is a fantastic way to implement that, they do the legal leg work for you and you simply put a license to your stuff.

So, what does that mean for you? Well, it means you can use our images, blog posts and website content provided the following conditions are met:

• You don't make any money from them or use them in a service that will generate revenue for yourselves
• You put a (c) Blastersmiths UK mark and then link to a) the original source and b) the license as provided at this link.

The scope of the CC-BY-NC-SA license also means you can remix and use our work in the context of other projects provided you link back in the same way as if you were using the material wholesale. If you've got any questions, give us a shout by clicking 'Contact Us' on the website.

The exceptions to the above are our shield device logo and any image that contains it. Those are (c) Blastersmiths UK All Rights Reserved and only may be used with our explicit permission.  This is to protect our brand identity and is the only compromise to our commitment to openness when it comes to our content.

Of course, all our patterns and designs are All Rights Reserved but that's for commercial reasons and is beyond the scope of this article.

So, get out there, share our images, use them in your own works, share our guides all over the place. Just make sure you comply with the license terms and we'll all be happy!

I'm off back to the production bench,

Mike Harratt
MD, BSUK