I decided to officially license all the stuff (content, code snippets, etc) on this website under a Creative Commons license. Creative Commons is an organization that provides free copyright licenses for people to use in order to release their works such that others can share and use the works for other purposes within a proper legal framework. All the stuff that I have ever put on this site (of my creation) has always been placed under the assumption that it is free for use by anyone for any purpose; I am just making it legally official now.

The licenses they provide come in several versions and the version that I decided to go with allows anyone to use any of the content on this site for any purpose as long as they attribute credit back to me. So for example, if you use one of the code snippets I commonly post here all you have to do is note in the code that you got it from me. However this doesn't apply to stuff that I did not create; so things that I link to or credit others for is not a work of my own creation and if you wanted to use it for something you need to follow the link and check with the original content creator.

Also most of the tools I have posted on the projects page are under a different license (mostly the GPL). They are explicitly marked.

They have a very handy tool for producing the Creative Commons copyrighting text. Made it very easy to choose the features of the license you want and produce both logos and text.

http://www.creativecommons.org/license/

Here is a sample of the licensing icon and text I decided to go with.

This work by Jordon Mears is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.