RAVER Content License
Details around the CC license that governs the Rated Validators Effectiveness Rating.
The CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International license is a Creative Commons license designed to promote the free sharing and adaptation of the RAVER. This license operates globally and grants users the freedom to copy, redistribute, remix, transform, and build upon the material in any medium or format.
You may use the content of the RAVER in any way that is consistent with the specific license that applies to the content, as described above, but we ask that you give proper attribution and use it for non commercial purposes only.
If you’d like to use the RAVER in a commercial setting, please contact us via hello@rated.network.
Additionally, if you modify, transform, or build upon the RAVER, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original, ensuring that all derivative works share the same freedoms.
Terms of Use
The RAVER is offered under a license that supports and encourages you to take, modify, reuse, repurpose, and remix the content according to your needs. For example, you could quote the text in a whitepaper, cut-and-paste sections to your blog, use it to advertise your operational excellence or even translate it.
We recommend that you follow the Commercial vs Non Commercial Guidelines stated below to make a judgment on whether or not your use case is complying with the terms of the license.
Commercial vs Noncommercial Guidelines
Please use these guidelines to help define the boundaries of commercial and non-commercial use of the RAVER, ensuring compliance with the intended use and licensing of the RAVER. Please note that the provided examples serve as guidelines and do not constitute an exhaustive list.
Examples of what might qualify as Non-Commercial use
Leveraging the RAVER as a benchmark for service level agreements
Using the RAVER to internally assess both your own and your network peers validator fleet performance
Utilizing the RAVER for marketing purposes, as long as it's not the primary service offering
Leveraging the RAVER for internal research and monitoring activities
Quoting the RAVER in a whitepaper, advertisement or blog
Examples of what might qualify as Commercial use
Employing the RAVER as the main service in a business
Generating and selling data on effectiveness using RAVER
Selling services or products based on effectiveness calculations derived from RAVER
As noted above, modifications or derivatives of RAVER content must be shared under the same CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, upholding the same usage freedoms.
Attribution
Proper attribution is required when you reuse or create modified versions of content that appears on a page made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license. The complete requirements for attribution can be found in section 3a of the Creative Commons legal code.
Exact Reproduction
If your work exactly reproduces text from the RAVER, in whole or in part, please include a paragraph at the bottom of your page that reads:
Portions of this page are reproduced from work created and shared by the Rated Effectiveness Rating (RAVER) and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0].
Also, please link back to the original source page so that readers can refer there for more information.
Modified versions
If your work shows modified content from the RAVER, please include a paragraph at the bottom of your page that reads:
Portions of this page are modifications based on work created and shared by the Rated Effectiveness Rating (RAVER) and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0].
Again, please link back to the original source page so that readers can refer there for more information. This is even more important when the content has been modified.
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