Licences

This page sums up the licences of the site in plain words. The binding texts are the two licence files in the site’s public repository: LICENSE for the code and LICENSE-CONTENT.md for everything else.

Code: MIT

The code of the site and its documentation are under the MIT licence. You may use, copy, change and share it, also commercially, as long as you keep the copyright notice and the licence text.

Written content: CC BY 4.0

The texts that lab members write for the site are under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence: profiles and biographies, research themes, news, events, positions, the fixed pages, the topic vocabulary and the text of the other records, wherever the site publishes them, on its pages, in its feeds, in its JSON API and in llms.txt. You may share and adapt them for any purpose, also commercially, if you give credit (for example “Theis Lab, theislab.bio”, with a link to the page), link to the licence and say whether you changed them.

Photographs and other images: all rights reserved

Photographs of people, images in news items and themes, and files people attach to their profiles belong to their owners: the person shown or the photographer named with the image. They are shown here with their consent and may not be reused without the owner’s permission.

Logo and brand files: all rights reserved

The logo, the mark, the wordmark, the design tokens and the slide and poster templates are all rights reserved by the Theis Lab. They are published so that the lab’s own sites, talks and posters share one identity; for any other use, ask the maintainers.

Fonts: SIL Open Font License 1.1

The site uses Newsreader, Geist and Geist Mono. They are licensed by their authors under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, not by the lab; the licence texts sit next to the font files in the repository.

Data from public sources

Publication, software and other records are compiled from public sources: ORCID, Crossref, DataCite, Europe PMC, OpenAlex, GitHub, PyPI, anaconda.org, Zenodo and posts on X. Facts such as who wrote which paper or how many stars a repository has are not the lab’s to license; reuse them under the terms of their source. Texts written by others stay theirs: abstracts remain under the terms of their publishers and authors, repository descriptions belong to the repositories’ owners, and posts belong to their authors. The lab’s own selection and arrangement of the data is offered under CC BY 4.0 as far as the lab holds any rights in it. The world map is drawn from Natural Earth data, which is in the public domain.

Questions and removals

To ask about a licence, or to have something about you changed or removed, open an issue in the repository or write to the maintainers. The privacy page explains what the repository’s history keeps.