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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License

By exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree
to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License ("Public
License"). To the extent this Public License may be interpreted as a
contract, You are granted the Licensed Rights in consideration of Your
acceptance of these terms and conditions, and the Licensor grants You
such rights in consideration of benefits the Licensor receives from
making the Licensed Material available under these terms and conditions.

Section 1 – Definitions.

a) Adapted Material means material subject to Copyright and Similar
   Rights that is derived from or based upon the Licensed Material and
   in which the Licensed Material is translated, altered, arranged, 
   transformed, or otherwise modified in a manner requiring permission
   under the Copyright and Similar Rights held by the Licensor. For
   purposes of this Public License, where the Licensed Material is a
   musical work, performance, or sound recording, Adapted Material is
   always produced where the Licensed Material is synched in timed
   relation with a moving image.

b) Adapter's License means the license You apply to Your Copyright and
   Similar Rights in Your contributions to Adapted Material in
   accordance with the terms and conditions of this Public License.

c) BY-SA Compatible License means a license listed at 
   creativecommons.org/compatiblelicenses, approved by Creative Commons
   as essentially the equivalent of this Public License.

d) Copyright and Similar Rights means copyright and/or similar rights
   closely related to copyright including, without limitation,
   performance, broadcast, sound recording, and Sui Generis Database
   Rights, without regard to how the rights are labeled or categorized.
   For purposes of this Public License, the rights specified in Section
   2(b)(1)-(2) are not Copyright and Similar Rights.

e) Effective Technological Measures means those measures that, in the
   absence of proper authority, may not be circumvented under laws
   fulfilling obligations under Article 11 of the WIPO Copyright Treaty
   adopted on December 20, 1996, and/or similar international
   agreements.

f) Exceptions and Limitations means fair use, fair dealing, and/or any
   other exception or limitation to Copyright and Similar Rights that
   applies to Your use of the Licensed Material.

g) License Elements means the license attributes listed in the name of a
   Creative Commons Public License. The License Elements of this Public
   License are Attribution and ShareAlike.

h) Licensed Material means the artistic or literary work, database, or
   other material to which the Licensor applied this Public License.

i) Licensed Rights means the rights granted to You subject to the terms
   and conditions of this Public License, which are limited to all
   Copyright and Similar Rights that apply to Your use of the Licensed
   Material and that the Licensor has authority to license.

j) Licensor means the individual(s) or entity(ies) granting rights under
   this Public License.

k) Share means to provide material to the public by any means or process
   that requires permission under the Licensed Rights, such as
   reproduction, public display, public performance, distribution,
   dissemination, communication, or importation, and to make material
   available to the public including in ways that members of the public
   may access the material from a place and at a time individually
   chosen by them.

l) Sui Generis Database Rights means rights other than copyright
   resulting from Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of
   the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases,
   as amended and/or succeeded, as well as other essentially equivalent
   rights anywhere in the world.

m) You means the individual or entity exercising the Licensed Rights
   under this Public License. Your has a corresponding meaning.

Section 2 – Scope.

a) License grant.
   1. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Public License, the
      Licensor hereby grants You a worldwide, royalty-free,
      non-sublicensable, non-exclusive, irrevocable license to exercise
      the Licensed Rights in the Licensed Material to:
      A. reproduce and Share the Licensed Material, in whole or in
         part; and
      B. produce, reproduce, and Share Adapted Material.
    2. Exceptions and Limitations. For the avoidance of doubt, where
       Exceptions and Limitations apply to Your use, this Public License
       does not apply, and You do not need to comply with its terms and
       conditions.
    3. Term. The term of this Public License is specified in Section
       6(a).
    4. Media and formats; technical modifications allowed. The Licensor
       authorizes You to exercise the Licensed Rights in all media and
       formats whether now known or hereafter created, and to make
       technical modifications necessary to do so. The Licensor waives
       and/or agrees not to assert any right or authority to forbid You
       from making technical modifications necessary to exercise the
       Licensed Rights, including technical modifications necessary to
       circumvent Effective Technological Measures. For purposes of this
       Public License, simply making modifications authorized by this
       Section 2(a)(4) never produces Adapted Material.
    5. Downstream recipients.
       A. Offer from the Licensor – Licensed Material. Every recipient
          of the Licensed Material automatically receives an offer from
          the Licensor to exercise the Licensed Rights under the terms
          and conditions of this Public License.
       B. Additional offer from the Licensor – Adapted Material. Every
          recipient of Adapted Material from You automatically receives
          an offer from the Licensor to exercise the Licensed Rights in
          the Adapted Material under the conditions of the Adapter’s
          License You apply.
       C. No downstream restrictions. You may not offer or impose any
          additional or different terms or conditions on, or apply any
          Effective Technological Measures to, the Licensed Material if
          doing so restricts exercise of the Licensed Rights by any
          recipient of the Licensed Material.
    6. No endorsement. Nothing in this Public License constitutes or may
       be construed as permission to assert or imply that You are, or
       that Your use of the Licensed Material is, connected with, or
       sponsored, endorsed, or granted official status by, the Licensor
       or others designated to receive attribution as provided in
       Section 3(a)(1)(A)(i).

b) Other rights.
   1. Moral rights, such as the right of integrity, are not licensed
      under this Public License, nor are publicity, privacy, and/or
      other similar personality rights; however, to the extent possible,
      the Licensor waives and/or agrees not to assert any such rights
      held by the Licensor to the limited extent necessary to allow You
      to exercise the Licensed Rights, but not otherwise.
   2. Patent and trademark rights are not licensed under this Public
      License.
   3. To the extent possible, the Licensor waives any right to collect
      royalties from You for the exercise of the Licensed Rights,
      whether directly or through a collecting society under any
      voluntary or waivable statutory or compulsory licensing scheme.
      In all other cases the Licensor expressly reserves any right to
      collect such royalties.

Section 3 – License Conditions.

Your exercise of the Licensed Rights is expressly made subject to the
following conditions.

a) Attribution.
   1. If You Share the Licensed Material (including in modified form),
      You must:
      A. retain the following if it is supplied by the Licensor with
         the Licensed Material:
         i.   identification of the creator(s) of the Licensed Material
              and any others designated to receive attribution, in any
              reasonable manner requested by the Licensor (including by
              pseudonym if designated);
         ii.  a copyright notice;
         iii. a notice that refers to this Public License;
         iv.  a notice that refers to the disclaimer of warranties;
         v.   a URI or hyperlink to the Licensed Material to the extent
              reasonably practicable;
      B. indicate if You modified the Licensed Material and retain an
         indication of any previous modifications; and
      C. indicate the Licensed Material is licensed under this Public
         License, and include the text of, or the URI or hyperlink to,
         this Public License.
   2. You may satisfy the conditions in Section 3(a)(1) in any
      reasonable manner based on the medium, means, and context in
      which You Share the Licensed Material. For example, it may be
      reasonable to satisfy the conditions by providing a URI or
      hyperlink to a resource that includes the required information.
   3. If requested by the Licensor, You must remove any of the
      information required by Section 3(a)(1)(A) to the extent
      reasonably practicable.
    
b. ShareAlike.
   In addition to the conditions in Section 3(a), if You Share Adapted
   Material You produce, the following conditions also apply.
   1. The Adapter’s License You apply must be a Creative Commons license
      with the same License Elements, this version or later, or a BY-SA
      Compatible License.
   2. 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.
   3. 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.

Section 4 – Sui Generis Database Rights.

Where the Licensed Rights include Sui Generis Database Rights that
apply to Your use of the Licensed Material:

a) for the avoidance of doubt, Section 2(a)(1) grants You the right to
   extract, reuse, reproduce, and Share all or a substantial portion of
   the contents of the database;
b) if You include all or a substantial portion of the database contents
   in a database in 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
c) You must comply with the conditions in Section 3(a) if You Share all
   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.

Section 5 – Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability.

a) Unless otherwise separately undertaken by the Licensor, to the extent
   possible, the Licensor offers the Licensed Material as-is and
   as-available, and makes no representations or warranties of any kind
   concerning the Licensed Material, whether express, implied,
   statutory, or other. This includes, without limitation, warranties of
   title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose,
   non-infringement, absence of latent or other defects, accuracy, or
   the presence or absence of errors, whether or not known or
   discoverable. Where disclaimers of warranties are not allowed in full
   or in part, this disclaimer may not apply to You.

b) To the extent possible, in no event will the Licensor be liable to
   You on any legal theory (including, without limitation, negligence)
   or otherwise for any direct, special, indirect, incidental,
   consequential, punitive, exemplary, or other losses, costs, expenses,
   or damages arising out of this Public License or use of the Licensed
   Material, even if the Licensor has been advised of the possibility of
   such losses, costs, expenses, or damages. Where a limitation of
   liability is not allowed in full or in part, this limitation may not
   apply to You.
   
c) The disclaimer of warranties and limitation of liability provided
   above shall be interpreted in a manner that, to the extent possible,
   most closely approximates an absolute disclaimer and waiver of all
   liability.

Section 6 – Term and Termination.

a) This Public License applies for the term of the Copyright and Similar
   Rights licensed here. However, if You fail to comply with this Public
   License, then Your rights under this Public License terminate
   automatically.
   
b) Where Your right to use the Licensed Material has terminated under
   Section 6(a), it reinstates:
   1. automatically as of the date the violation is cured, provided it 
      is cured within 30 days of Your discovery of the violation; or
   2. upon express reinstatement by the Licensor.
   For the avoidance of doubt, this Section 6(b) does not affect any
   right the Licensor may have to seek remedies for Your violations of
   this Public License.
   
c) For the avoidance of doubt, the Licensor may also offer the Licensed
   Material under separate terms or conditions or stop distributing the
   Licensed Material at any time; however, doing so will not terminate
   this Public License.
   
d) Sections 1, 5, 6, 7, and 8 survive termination of this Public
   License.

Section 7 – Other Terms and Conditions.

The Licensor shall not be bound by any additional or different terms or
conditions communicated by You unless expressly agreed.

Any arrangements, understandings, or agreements regarding the Licensed
Material not stated herein are separate from and independent of the
terms and conditions of this Public License.

Section 8 – Interpretation.

a) For the avoidance of doubt, this Public License does not, and shall
   not be interpreted to, reduce, limit, restrict, or impose conditions
   on any use of the Licensed Material that could lawfully be made
   without permission under this Public License.
   
b) To the extent possible, if any provision of this Public License is
   deemed unenforceable, it shall be automatically reformed to the
   minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable. If the provision
   cannot be reformed, it shall be severed from this Public License
   without affecting the enforceability of the remaining terms and
   conditions.
   
c) No term or condition of this Public License will be waived and no
   failure to comply consented to unless expressly agreed to by the
   Licensor.
   
d) Nothing in this Public License constitutes or may be interpreted as a
   limitation upon, or waiver of, any privileges and immunities that
   apply to the Licensor or You, including from the legal processes of
   any jurisdiction or authority.