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As per the terms of the Creative Commons license, if you include OSGeo-Live documentation into a new document, you will need to attribute the contributors. Further, if Quickstarts are included, which are licenced under the CC By-SA license, then the new document will also need to be licenced under the CC By-SA.
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Verbose, suitable for a 100 page thesis:
This document includes content from the “gvSIG Quickstart” created by Simon Cropper under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported licence, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ available from the OSGeo-Live project, http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/gvsig_quickstart.html, and downloaded on 25 July 2011. The original work was translated from English to German.
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This document includes OSGeo-Live Project Overviews by OSGeo-Live contributors.
The table below credits the contributors for each of the documents on OSGeo-Live.
| Document | Author(s) | Reviewers(s) | License(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 52nSOS_overview | Eike Hinderk Jürrens (e.h.juerrens@52north.org) | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| 52nWPS_overview | Bastian Schaeffer, Kristof Lange | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| 52nWSS_overview | Jan Drewnak (j.drewnak@52north.org) | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| R_overview | OSGeo-Live | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| atlasstyler_overview | Stefan Tzeggai | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| deegree_overview | Johannes Wilden | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| gdal_overview | OSGeo-Live | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| geokettle_overview | Thierry Badard | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| geomajas_overview | Pieter De Graef | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| geomoose_overview | OSGeo-Live; Bob Basques | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| geonetwork_overview | OSGeo-Live | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| geopublisher_overview | Stefan Tzeggai | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| geoserver_overview | Ian Turton; Frank Gasdorf | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| geotools_overview | Jody Garnett | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| gmt_overview | Hamish Bowman; Paul Wessel | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| gpsdrive_overview | Hamish Bowman | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| grass_overview | Hamish Bowman | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| gvsig_overview | OSGeo-Live | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| kosmo_overview | Sergio Baños Calvo | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| liblas_overview | Howard Butler | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| mapbender_overview | Astrid Emde | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| mapfish_overview | OSGeo-Live; Hamish Bowman; Eric Lemoine | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| mapguide_overview | Trevor Wekel | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| mapnik_overview | Dane Springmeyer | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| mapproxy_overview | Oliver Tonnhofer | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| mapserver_overview | Alan Boudreault, Steve Lime | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| maptiler_overview | Klokan Petr Pridal | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| marble_overview | Hamish Bowman | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| mb-system_overview | Hamish Bowman | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons |
| metacrs_overview | OSGeo-Live; Mike Adair | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| naturalearth_overview | OSGeo-Live | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| nc_dataset_overview | Hamish Bowman | Cameron Shorter | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| opencpn_overview | Dave Register; Hamish Bowman | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
| openjump_overview | OSGeo-Live | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| openlayers_overview | Chris Schmidt; OSGeo-Live | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| osgearth_overview | Pirmin Kalberer | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| osm_dataset_overview | Hamish Bowman | Cameron Shorter | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| osm_overview | Hamish Bowman | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons |
| ossim_overview | OSGeo-Live | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| otb_overview | OSGeo-Live | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| pgrouting_overview | Daniel Kastl | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| postgis_overview | OSGeo-Live; Barry Rowlingson | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| prune_overview | activityworkshop | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| pycsw_overview | OSGeo-Live; Tom Kralidis, Angelos Tzotsos | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons |
| qgis_mapserver_overview | OSGeo-Live | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| qgis_overview | OSGeo-Live | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| rasdaman_overview | Peter Baumann; Michael Owonibi | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| saga_overview | OSGeo-Live | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| sahana_overview | Gavin Treadgold | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| spatialite_overview | Pirmin Kalberer | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| tinyows_overview | OSGeo-Live | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| udig_overview | OSGeo-Live | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| ushahidi_overview | Henry Addo | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| viking_overview | Hamish Bowman | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons |
| zoo-project_overview | Gérald Fenoy | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| zygrib_overview | Hamish Bowman | Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
| 52nSOS_quickstart | Eike Hinderk Jürrens (e.h.juerrens@52north.org) | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| 52nWPS_quickstart | Kristof Lange | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| 52nWSS_quickstart | Jan Drewnak (j.drewnak@52north.org) | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| R_quickstart | Barry Rowlingson | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| atlasstyler_quickstart | Stefan Tzeggai | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| deegree_quickstart | Johannes Küpper | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| gdal_quickstart | Astrid Emde, material from Frank Warmedam’s RasterTutorial | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| geokettle_quickstart | Jean Mathieu; Thierry Badard | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| geomajas_quickstart | Pieter De Graef | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| geomoose_quickstart | Bob Basques | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| geonetwork_quickstart | GeoNetwork Community | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| geopublisher_quickstart | Stefan Tzeggai | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| geoserver_quickstart | Ian Turton; Frank Gasdorf | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| gmt_quickstart | Hamish Bowman | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| gpsdrive_quickstart | Hamish Bowman | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| grass_quickstart | Hamish Bowman | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| gvsig_quickstart | Simon Cropper | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| internationalisation_quickstart | OSGeo-Live; Frank Gasdorf; Cameron Shorter | Cameron Shorter | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
| kosmo_quickstart | Sergio Baños Calvo | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| liblas_quickstart | Howard Butler | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| mapbender_quickstart | OSGeo-Live; Astrid Emde; Christoph Baudson; Arnulf Christl | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| mapfish_quickstart | Eric Lemoine, Bruno Binet | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| mapguide_quickstart | Trevor Wekel | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| mapnik_quickstart | OSGeo-Live; Dane Springmeyer | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| mapproxy_quickstart | Oliver Tonnhofer | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| mapserver_quickstart | OSGeo-Live; Alan Boudreault, Steve Lime | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| maptiler_quickstart | OSGeo-Live; Petr Pridal; Christopher Fleet | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| marble_quickstart | Hamish Bowman | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| mb-system_quickstart | Hamish Bowman | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| opencpn_quickstart | Hamish Bowman | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| openjump_quickstart | OSGeo-Live; Landon Blake | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| openlayers_quickstart | Chris Schmidt | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| osgearth_quickstart | OSGeo-Live; Pirmin Kalberer | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| osgeolive_install_quickstart | OSGeo-Live; Cameron Shorter | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| osgeolive_quickstart | OSGeo-Live; Cameron Shorter | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| osm_quickstart | Hamish Bowman | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| ossim_quickstart | OSGeo-Live; Massimo Di Stefano; Pirmin Kalberer | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| otb_quickstart | OSGeo-Live; Manuel Grizonnet | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| pgrouting_quickstart | Daniel Kastl | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| postgis_quickstart | Barry Rowlingson; Astrid Emde; Cameron Shorter | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| prune_quickstart | activityworkshop | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| pycsw_quickstart | OSGeo-Live; Tom Kralidis, Angelos Tzotsos | Creative Commons | |
| qgis_mapserver_quickstart | OSGeo-Live; Pirmin Kalberer | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| qgis_quickstart | OSGeo-Live; Pirmin Kalberer | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| rasdaman_quickstart | Michael Owonibi (m.owonibi@jacobs-university.de); Peter Baumann (p.baumann@jacobs-university.de) | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| saga_quickstart | Johan Van de Wauw | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| sahana_quickstart | Gavin Treadgold | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| spatialite_quickstart | OSGeo-Live | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| tinyows_quickstart | OSGeo-Live; Pirmin Kalberer | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| udig_quickstart | OSGeo-Live; Jody Garnett; Frank Gasdorf | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| usb_quickstart | OSGeo-Live; Cameron Shorter | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| ushahidi_quickstart | Henry Addo | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| viking_quickstart | Hamish Bowman | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| virtualbox_quickstart | OSGeo-Live; Cameron Shorter | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| zoo-project_quickstart | Gérald Fenoy | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) | |
| zygrib_quickstart | Hamish Bowman | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
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