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- Share means to provide material to the public by any means or process
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- produce, reproduce, and Share Adapted Material for NonCommercial
purposes only.
- Exceptions and Limitations.
For the avoidance of doubt, where Exceptions and Limitations apply to Your use, this
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conditions.
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- indicate if You modified the Licensed Material and retain an
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- indicate the Licensed Material is licensed under this Public License,
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- You may satisfy the conditions in Section 3(a)(1) in any
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providing a URI or hyperlink to a resource that includes the required information.
- If requested by the Licensor, You must remove any of the information required
by Section 3(a)(1)(A) to the extent reasonably practicable.
- ShareAlike.
In addition to the conditions in Section 3(a), if You Share Adapted
Material You produce, the following conditions also apply.
- The Adapter’s License You apply must be a Creative Commons license with the
same License Elements, this version or later, or a BY-NC-SA Compatible License.
- You must include the text of, or the URI or hyperlink to, the Adapter's
License You apply. You may satisfy this condition in any reasonable manner based on the
medium, means, and context in which You Share Adapted Material.
- You may not offer or impose any additional or different terms or conditions
on, or apply any Effective Technological Measures to, Adapted Material that restrict
exercise of the rights granted under the Adapter's License You apply.
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Where the Licensed Rights include Sui Generis Database Rights that apply to Your use of the Licensed
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- for the avoidance of doubt, Section 2(a)(1) grants You the right to
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database for NonCommercial purposes only;
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which You have Sui Generis Database Rights, then the database in which You have Sui Generis
Database Rights (but not its individual contents) is Adapted Material, including for purposes of
Section 3(b); and
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or a substantial portion of the contents of the database.
For the avoidance of doubt, this Section
4 supplements and does not replace Your
obligations under this Public License where the Licensed Rights include other Copyright and Similar
Rights.
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For the avoidance of doubt, this Section 6(b) does not affect any right the
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