# Copyright Statement

The Digital Skills GitBook carries a CC-BY-SA (Share Alike) license, which specifically "lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms." (See: [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/)).

The Digital Dexterity Champions selected this license for the following reasons:

* A CC-BY-SA licence facilitates community sharing which enriches Digital Dexterity community goal of collaboration and generosity
* A CC-BY-SA licence fosters creation and innovation in developing learning objects and other resources
* By attaching the Share Alike condition, commercial agents would be unable to modify the work and make commercial uses without giving credit to the original authors and attaching a similar SA licence themselves.
