Last updated: 15 May 2026
In short
Unless otherwise stated, all content produced by the Life Mapper consortium and published on this website and on the Knowledge Platform is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0). You are free to share and adapt it, including for commercial purposes, as long as you give appropriate credit.
This open-licensing approach reflects the EU LIFE Programme's commitment to open science and the project's communication strategy (Deliverable D7.1, §3.8).
What CC BY 4.0 allows
You can
- Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
- Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercially.
Under these terms
- Attribution — you must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests Life Mapper endorses you or your use.
- No additional restrictions — you may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the licence permits.
Full legal text: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
How to attribute
A correct attribution should make clear (a) the title of the work, (b) the author or source, (c) the licence and a link to it.
Suggested format
"[Title of the resource]" by the Life Mapper consortium, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Source: https://www.life-mapper.eu/
For modifications, please add a note such as "adapted from" and briefly describe the change.
What is not covered
The CC BY 4.0 licence applies to original Life Mapper content only. The following materials are not covered and remain the property of their respective owners:
Third-party content
- Consortium partner logos (CNR-ISMAR, ISPRA, UNIVPM, UniNa, UAEGEAN, UOG, Space42 Europe) — used with permission of each partner; trademark rights reserved.
- European Union and LIFE Programme logos — governed by the visual identity manuals of the European Commission and CINEA. See EC visual identity.
- Embedded videos (e.g. YouTube, Vimeo) — subject to the licence of each original creator and to the terms of the hosting platform.
- Third-party photographs and illustrations appearing in news posts, deliverables or resources — credited inline to the original author/source and used under their respective licences.
- Quotations, datasets and cited works from external publications — used under their original licensing terms (typically academic fair use or open-access licences specified by the publisher).
Where a single page mixes original Life Mapper content with third-party material, the third-party items are individually credited and the CC BY 4.0 default applies only to the Life Mapper portions.
Software and data
Source code published by the consortium on public repositories is released under its own open-source licence as declared in the repository (typically MIT or EUPL). Where datasets are published with a specific Creative Commons or open data licence, the licence shown next to the dataset overrides the site-wide default.
Requests and permissions
For uses that fall outside the scope of CC BY 4.0 — for example, to obtain a high-resolution copy of a partner logo, to use Life Mapper material in commercial branding, or to clarify the licensing of a specific item — please write to the project mailbox:
Changes to this licence notice
We may update this page to clarify scope, exceptions or attribution practice. Substantive changes will be reflected in the "Last updated" date above. The CC BY 4.0 licence itself is irrevocable for material already released under it.