License & Terms

Cypherpunk School believes in open knowledge. Here’s how our content is licensed.

Free Course Content

License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)

This applies to:

  • Cypherpunk 101 (all weeks)
  • Privacy 101 (all weeks)
  • Resources and reference materials
  • Blog posts and articles

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 These Terms:

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

What This Means Practically:

✅ Use our lessons to teach others ✅ Translate content to other languages ✅ Adapt for your organization’s training ✅ Quote in your own work with attribution ✅ Mirror on your own infrastructure

❌ Claim you wrote it ❌ Remove attribution ❌ Relicense derivatives under restrictive terms

Premium Content (Future)

Some advanced content may be offered as paid materials. This includes:

  • Advanced bonus modules
  • Guided cohort programs
  • Personalized mentorship materials
  • Exclusive workshops or resources

Premium content is NOT covered by CC BY-SA.

Premium content terms:

  • Personal use only — For the purchaser’s own learning
  • No redistribution — Do not share, resell, or publicly post
  • No commercial use — Not for resale or inclusion in paid products

We’ll clearly mark which content is premium and which is freely licensed.

Code & Scripts

Any code, scripts, or configuration examples in lessons are released under the MIT License:

MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.

Use our code examples however you like.

Third-Party Content

Some materials reference or link to third-party resources:

  • Official tool documentation
  • External articles and papers
  • Open source project sites

These remain under their original licenses. We provide links for convenience, not ownership.

Foundational Documents

Documents hosted in our /docs/ directory:

  • A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto — Public domain / fair use (historical document)
  • Bitcoin Whitepaper — MIT License (Satoshi Nakamoto)
  • CryptoNote Whitepaper — Original authors’ terms

We host these for educational permanence and provide IPFS hashes for verification.

No Warranty

All content is provided “as is” without warranty of any kind.

  • We do our best to ensure accuracy, but technology changes
  • Test commands in safe environments before production use
  • You’re responsible for your own systems and security decisions
  • We’re not liable for any damages from using this content

Privacy

We practice what we teach:

  • No tracking cookies or analytics that identify you
  • No personal data collection from course access
  • No email required to access free content
  • Donations are private (especially via Monero)

If you contact us, we’ll handle your information with the privacy standards we teach.

Changes to Terms

We may update these terms as the project evolves. Major changes will be noted on this page with dates.

Last updated: 2025-12-31

Questions?

Unclear about licensing? Contact us and we’ll clarify.

CC BY-SA 4.0

Free content licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0