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Everything on orderoftheserpent.org is dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0 Universal. No rights reserved.

The Dedication

No rights reserved

To the extent possible under law, the Order of the Serpent has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to every work it has published, including all texts, images, the Open Ring sigil, the design, and the code of orderoftheserpent.org. This dedication is made under CC0 1.0 Universal, and it applies to all works the Order has published since its founding in 2010 and to all works it will publish in the future.

The dedication took formal effect on 1 March 2019. Before that date, the Order's publications carried an informal notice reading "No rights reserved." The CC0 dedication replaces those notices and applies to every earlier work as fully as to every later one.

In Plain Language

You can copy, modify, distribute, perform, and display the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission and without giving credit. You do not need to keep any notice, link to this page, or tell anyone where the work came from, although you are welcome to.

What the Dedication Covers

  • Every text in the Library, in every edition, past and present.
  • Every entry in the Journal.
  • Every other page on this site, including this one.
  • The Open Ring sigil, in every form, size, and color.
  • The site's icons and images.
  • The site's stylesheet, script, and markup, and its design.
  • The site's sitemap and robots files.

Where a Full Waiver Is Not Possible

In some places the law does not allow an author to waive every right completely. CC0 1.0 Universal provides for this. Where any part of the waiver is held to be invalid or ineffective, the Order grants instead an unconditional, irrevocable, royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide license to use the work for any purpose, for the full duration of whatever rights remain. The Order also waives, to the extent it can, any right to bring claims against anyone for using the work in any way.

What the Dedication Does Not Affect

  • Trademarks and patents. CC0 does not waive or license trademark or patent rights. The Order holds no trademarks and no patents, and it has registered none.
  • Rights held by others. CC0 does not affect rights that other people may have in a work, such as rights of privacy or publicity. No work published by the Order depicts or names any private individual.
  • Warranties. The work is offered as it is. The Order makes no representations or warranties of any kind concerning the work, and disclaims liability for any use of it, to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Courtesies, Not Conditions

The Order asks that anyone who changes one of its texts not present those changes as the Order's words, and that no one claim to speak for the Order. These are requests. They are not conditions of the dedication, and nothing on this page should be read as making them so. See Open Access for the reasoning behind them.

A Notice You May Use

If you republish an Order text and wish to include a notice, you may use the following, or any wording you prefer, or none at all.

This work is dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0 Universal.
No rights reserved.
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