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You may
- Copy and share any page, in any medium.
- Quote it in a post, a talk, a course or internal docs.
- Translate and adapt it.
- Use it commercially.
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- Credit Anatomy of IT Product.
- Link to the exact page you used.
- Name the license: CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Mark your changes and share adaptations under the same license.
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- The name and the logo.
- The site’s design and code.
- Illustrations on the homepage and section pages.
- Other people’s trademarks and quotations.
What the license covers
The license applies to the text of every article and every section page, in every language on the site, and to the diagrams drawn for them. All of it is original work. It was written for this site, not copied from somewhere else.
The copyright in that work belongs to Anatomy of IT Product. Copyright exists from the moment a work is written, in the United States and in every other country of the Berne Convention. No registration and no © sign are needed for it to apply.
The license does not give that copyright away. It is a standing permission, granted in advance to everyone, to use the work on the conditions below. Anything not listed here stays all rights reserved; the list is under What the license does not cover.
How to credit a page
A proper credit has four parts. Creative Commons calls them TASL: title, author, source and license.
- Title: the heading of the page you used, for example “Scrum”.
- Author: Anatomy of IT Product.
- Source: a link to that exact page, not to the homepage. The page address is what lets your reader check the original.
- License: CC BY-SA 4.0, linked to its deed on creativecommons.org.
On a web page, the credit should be a real link. In print, on a slide or in a video, write the address out in full.
<p>Source: <a href="https://anatomyit.dev/management/methodologies/scrum">“Scrum”</a> by Anatomy of IT Product, licensed under <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>.</p>“Scrum” by Anatomy of IT Product, https://anatomyit.dev/management/methodologies/scrum, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.If you translate or change it
A translation, a shortened version, a rewrite, a course built on a page or a diagram redrawn in your own style are all adaptations. They are allowed. Two extra conditions come with them.
- Say that you changed the work, and how. “Translated into German and shortened” is enough.
- Publish the adaptation under CC BY-SA 4.0 or a compatible license. This is the ShareAlike part: whatever is built on open work stays open.
Adapted from “Scrum” by Anatomy of IT Product, https://anatomyit.dev/management/methodologies/scrum (CC BY-SA 4.0). Translated into German and shortened. This version is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.ShareAlike covers the adaptation itself, not your whole product. If a course includes one translated page as a lesson, that lesson must be under CC BY-SA 4.0. The rest of the course stays yours.
Quoting a line or a paragraph
A short quotation in an answer, a review, an article or a talk is always welcome. Credit it the same way, with the page title and a link, and that is all.
The ShareAlike condition does not reach your own text around a quotation. Quoting a paragraph in your blog post does not put the post under CC BY-SA.
Code examples
Code on this site (commands, configuration keys and snippets set in monospace, like git rebase) is dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. Copy it into your project. No credit is needed.
A command is only useful if it can be pasted into a terminal unchanged, and a credit line attached to it would break the paste. For the same reason, the site never adds its credit when you copy code.
What the license does not cover
- The name Anatomy of IT Product, the logo and the brand mark. Use them to credit a page, never as the name of your own site, product or copy.
- The site’s design, its layout and its source code.
- The illustrations on the homepage and on the section pages.
- Other people’s trademarks. Scrum, AWS, Kubernetes and the other names in the articles belong to their owners and are used here only to name what is described.
- Material quoted from other sources, such as the Scrum Guide. It stays under its own terms, and those are the terms to follow when you reuse it.
If you find a copy without credit
Using a page without meeting the conditions is not covered by the license. That means no credit, no link, or a credit that was removed. At that point the permission ends for whoever made the copy, and the copy becomes an ordinary copyright infringement.
The license also offers a way back. If the problem is fixed within 30 days of the person learning about it, the permission is restored automatically. In practice, a missing credit is usually an oversight rather than bad intent, so the first step is always a polite note asking for the link.
If you come across a copy of one of our pages without credit, write to partners@anatomyit.dev with the address of the copy. We will take it from there.
The legal text
This page is a plain-language summary. It is not the license itself, and it is not legal advice. The terms that apply are Creative Commons’ own: the license deed is the one-page version, and the legal code is the full text. Where this page and the legal code differ, the legal code wins.
Creative Commons licenses are written by lawyers to work the same way in every country. That is why Wikipedia and many open textbooks use them. CC BY-SA 4.0 is the license Wikipedia publishes its text under.
The license applies from September 15, 2026 to everything published on the site, including pages that appeared earlier.