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The material provided on this page is not legal advice. It is an explanation of the intent of the design of the license, with regard to its use and applicability. The specific legal requirements of notice of license may vary in some jurisdictions. If you have questions related to the legal implications of the use of this license, you should consult a lawyer for specifics, and remember that the courts generally serve as the final arbiter of such matters.

Copyright Holder:

If you hold the copyright for something and wish to license it under the terms of the COIL, you may in essence do so just about any way you like. See a lawyer for more specifics, but acceptable means of offering a work under the terms of the COIL (or most/any other licenses, with appropriate substitutions of terms) should include:

  1. For online display of licensed content, post notice of acceptable license terms, such as with text (including link) similar in form to "This content Copyright 2008, and may be redistributed under the terms of the Tesla COIL."
  2. Offer compressed archive for download or public version control repository for clone/checkout, with license text in an included file.
  3. Offer content download with included URI for the online Tesla COIL page and text similar to that in option 1 of this list.
  4. Provide physical printed media with the text of the license included.
  5. Provide physical printed media with included URI of the online Tesla COIL page and text similar to that in option 1 of this list.
  6. Provide physical storage media such as a CD with the text of the license in an included file.
  7. Provide physical storage media such as a CD with included URI of the online Tesla COIL page and text similar to that in option 1 of this list.
  8. Provide the full text of the license with, or as part of, the covered work.
  9. . . . et cetera.

Preferred forms of notice should always include distribution of the text of the license with the covered work and explicit notice that these license terms apply.

Redistributor:

It is probably a bad idea to redistribute content covered by the terms of any license without distributing the full text of the license with the content, if you are not the copyright holder of that content, for legal reasons.

Recipient:

If you believe you have received content subject to the terms of the COIL without being advised of the applicability of the COIL's terms, please contact the redistributor to resolve the issue. If the redistributor fails to abide by the terms of the COIL, please contact the copyright holder if possible and inform him or her of this oversight. Such license enforcement issues are not the responsibility of the maintainer of the COIL itself.

Dual-Licensing:

Because of its weak heritability and license restriction characteristics, there should be no legal need to dual-license a work covered by the COIL to encourage adoption, use, or redistribution. It may serve as an ideal companion to another, widely recognized license that offers a patent license grant as well, however, such as the Apache License 2.0. Unfortunately, finding a widely recognized license containing a patent license grant that does not limit itself to specific content types (such as software) may prove difficult, so that in the case of works other than software there may be no appropriate second license to use.