Case Study and PBE Practice Licensing

We’ve made a couple of key artifacts related to the book available for download: the PBE Practice and the source associated with the book’s case study. For both of these artifacts, we’ve made them available for reuse under a Creative Commons license.  For example, within the PBE Practice, you’ll find the following copyright and license:

Copyright and License
All material in the Patterns-Based Engineering (PBE) Practice plug-in is copyright Lee Ackerman and Celso Gonzalez, 2010 – except where otherwise noted. Refer to patternsbasedengineering.net for more details on PBE, additional content and artifacts associated with “Patterns-Based Engineering: Successfully Delivering Solutions via Patterns”.

Patterns-Based Engineering Practice by Lee Ackerman and Celso Gonzalez is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Based on a work at patternsbasedengineering.net. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://patternsbasedengineering.net/.

With this license we are allowing you to use the materials, update the materials and you can even share the updated content with others.  However, if you choose to update and then share the materials you must keep an attribution to myself and Celso and you cannot sell the updated content. Our hope is that this provides you with enough freedom to consume, work with, and enhance these materials – while ensuring that we are recognized for the work we have done and more importantly that it remains free to use.

If you have any questions, comments or concerns about the license – please drop us a line.