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MSUthemes is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.

Summary

You are free to:

  • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
  • Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially

Under the following terms:

  • Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made
  • ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original

Full License Text

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How to Give Attribution

When using MSUthemes in your work, please provide attribution:

In Publications

Visualizations created using MSUthemes (https://github.com/emilioxavier/msuthemes-py),
licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

In Code

# Visualizations created with MSUthemes
# https://github.com/emilioxavier/msuthemes-py
# Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

from msuthemes import theme_msu

In Documentation

This project uses [MSUthemes](https://github.com/emilioxavier/msuthemes-py)
for data visualization, licensed under
[CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

Font License

The Metropolis font included with MSUthemes is licensed separately under the SIL Open Font License 1.1:

The SIL Open Font License allows: - Free use in personal and commercial projects - Modification and redistribution - Embedding in documents and websites

Data License

The Big Ten dataset included with MSUthemes is derived from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard:

  • Source: College Scorecard (https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/)
  • Data is in the public domain
  • No copyright restrictions on the data itself

Third-Party Dependencies

MSUthemes depends on several open-source libraries, each with their own licenses:

  • matplotlib - PSF-based license
  • numpy - BSD 3-Clause License
  • pandas - BSD 3-Clause License
  • seaborn (optional) - BSD 3-Clause License
  • plotly (optional) - MIT License

Questions

If you have questions about the license:

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