# Usage rights of CoC
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/usage-rights-of-coc/63615
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [30 mei 2017 om 15:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/usage-rights-of-coc/63615 "2017-05-30T15:10:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@AlexandraB](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AlexandraB)
#### Post date: [30 mei 2017 om 15:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/usage-rights-of-coc/63615/1 "2017-05-30T15:10:56Z")
How are community managers and communities allowed to leverage and use the Discourse CoC for their communities? Is this under a creative commons or something?
What are the usage rights?
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### Author:  [@AlexandraB](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AlexandraB)
#### Post date: [30 mei 2017 om 15:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/usage-rights-of-coc/63615/2 "2017-05-30T15:49:22Z")
Discussion here as well: [Update code-of-conduct.md by aabowen · Pull Request #4892 · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4892)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [30 mei 2017 om 17:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/usage-rights-of-coc/63615/3 "2017-05-30T17:08:29Z")
Our CoC: [discourse/docs/code-of-conduct.md at 5dbd6a304bed5400be481d71061d3e3ebb4d6785 · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/5dbd6a304bed5400be481d71061d3e3ebb4d6785/docs/code-of-conduct.md)
Is adapted from the version 1.4, CoC
The text is pretty much exactly the same as [https://www.contributor-covenant.org/it/version/1/4/code-of-conduct/](http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/) except that we added our email.
The Contributor Covenant is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License, which requires that attribution be included. (which we do)
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### Author:  [@AlexandraB](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AlexandraB)
#### Post date: [30 mei 2017 om 18:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/usage-rights-of-coc/63615/4 "2017-05-30T18:04:59Z")
So what do you mean by “attribution”? Can you be specific on what needs to be included?
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@AlexandraB](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AlexandraB)
#### Post date: [30 mei 2017 om 18:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/usage-rights-of-coc/63615/5 "2017-05-30T18:08:17Z")
Does this suffice?
“This Code of Conduct is adapted from the Discourse Code of Conduct available at [discourse/docs/code-of-conduct.md at 5dbd6a304bed5400be481d71061d3e3ebb4d6785 · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/5dbd6a304bed5400be481d71061d3e3ebb4d6785/docs/code-of-conduct.md). and based on The Contributor Covenant version 1.4. It is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License”
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [30 mei 2017 om 18:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/usage-rights-of-coc/63615/6 "2017-05-30T18:38:37Z")
Wait, if you have issues with the copy of [http://contributor-covenant.org/](http://contributor-covenant.org/) why not raise it with them? I don’t want to diverge our copy from the original.
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### Author:  [@AlexandraB](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AlexandraB)
#### Post date: [30 mei 2017 om 18:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/usage-rights-of-coc/63615/7 "2017-05-30T18:56:01Z")
Ah you’re suggesting I just use theirs which is:
> This Code of Conduct is adapted from the [Contributor Covenant][homepage], version 1.4,
> available at [[https://www.contributor-covenant.org/it/version/1/4/code-of-conduct/](http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4)][version]
I guess I don’t know how much you added/changed from their original. So, since you edited/added to their CoC, and I’m wanting to edit/add to yours - I thought perhaps I’d need to attribute **you** , not Contributor Covenant?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [30 mei 2017 om 19:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/usage-rights-of-coc/63615/8 "2017-05-30T19:06:41Z")
I asked on twitter:
[https://twitter.com/CoralineAda/status/869625618614374402](https://twitter.com/CoralineAda/status/869625618614374402)
[https://twitter.com/CoralineAda/status/869625766887247872](https://twitter.com/CoralineAda/status/869625766887247872)
This is the only difference we have between the original and ours:
```plaintext
sam@ubuntu docs % diff code_of_conduct.md code-of-conduct.md
58c58
< reported by contacting the project team at [INSERT EMAIL ADDRESS]. All
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> reported by contacting the project team at team@discourse.org. All
```
We replaced `[INSERT EMAIL ADDRESS]` with `team@discourse.org`, I do not see why I need to include an extra clause in our code of conduct cause we made that change to license that.
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### Author:  [@AlexandraB](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AlexandraB)
#### Post date: [30 mei 2017 om 19:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/usage-rights-of-coc/63615/9 "2017-05-30T19:21:05Z")
Ok, great! Thanks for you help. I didn’t realize that was all you updated. Just wanted to confirm and make sure I’m giving credit where credit is due. I think I will still give Discourse a nod, because I found the Contributor Covenant from you!
Thanks team. 🙂
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [30 mei 2017 om 20:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/usage-rights-of-coc/63615/10 "2017-05-30T20:53:54Z")
I don’t know that we needed to bug someone on Twitter over a single email address? But I guess that is clear now…
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### Author:  [@AlexandraB](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AlexandraB)
#### Post date: [30 mei 2017 om 21:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/usage-rights-of-coc/63615/11 "2017-05-30T21:41:11Z")
Yeah, as mentioned I didn’t realize all you changed was the email address. I like to be 100% clear and certain with things like this, and wanted to make sure Discourse didn’t need attribution…
Appreciate the help and apologies for any inconvenience!