Licensing

Last updated: June 11, 2026. View change history.

Clawdemy is built to be a public good for individual learners, educators, schools, and non-profits. This page explains in plain English what is free for everyone, what requires permission, and how to request a commercial license if you fall into the second group.

If you are an individual reader who wants to learn from Clawdemy, you do not need to read this page. Just enjoy the lessons. This page exists for people who want to translate, adapt, redistribute, embed, or build commercial work on top of Clawdemy content, and for the small minority of those who need a commercial license to do so.

The short version

What you want to do	What license applies	Do you need to ask first?
Read and listen to lessons for yourself	Free for everyone	No
Use lessons in a classroom (any school, including tuition-funded)	Free for everyone	No
Use lessons in a non-profit educational program	Free for everyone	No
Translate a lesson into another language and share it under the same license	Free for everyone	No
Adapt a lesson for accessibility (large print, plain language, alternative formats)	Free for everyone	No
Quote or cite a lesson in a blog, paper, or talk with attribution	Free for everyone	No
Use lesson text as primary material in a paid training program your company sells	Commercial use	Yes
Reproduce lesson audio (the MP3 files) on YouTube, podcast platforms you control, or paid courses	Audio is All Rights Reserved	Yes
Use lessons as the curriculum inside an internal employee learning platform at a company	Commercial use	Yes
Build a paid app or service that embeds Clawdemy lesson content	Commercial use	Yes
Use code samples from lessons (anything in a code fence) in any project	MIT License (free)	No

If your situation does not appear on this table, the simplest answer is to send a short note to [email protected] describing what you want to do. We respond to all reasonable inquiries.

The three licenses, in one paragraph each

Lesson text content: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Everything written on the site, the lesson prose, the diagrams, the quizzes, the summaries, the references, is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International. You may share and adapt this content for non-commercial purposes, you must give appropriate attribution to Clawdemy, and any derivative work you publish must use the same license. The full license text is at creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0.

Audio narration: All Rights Reserved

The AI-narrated MP3 files (the “Listen to this lesson” audio on every lesson page, the Clawdemy Lessons podcast feed, and all derivative audio) are All Rights Reserved by RBJ Global LLC. You may listen to the audio through legitimate podcast platforms where the show is officially distributed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, and similar. Re-hosting, restreaming, repackaging, or converting Clawdemy audio into derivative works such as YouTube videos requires explicit permission. The RSS feed announces this posture via the Podcasting 2.0 <podcast:license> and <podcast:locked> tags.

Code samples and tooling: MIT License

Any code inside a code fence in a lesson (anything marked with a language like js, ts, py, sh, or similar), as well as the build scripts and Astro source files that produce the site, are licensed under the MIT License. You may use this code in any project, commercial or non-commercial, with or without attribution.

What stays free for everyone

We deliberately keep the bar wide for the use cases that match Clawdemy’s mission. The following uses are explicitly permitted with no permission required, as long as the attribution and ShareAlike terms of CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 are honored:

Individual learners

Read the lessons, listen to the audio, take the practice questions, adapt your notes, share links with friends. You are the audience Clawdemy is built for.

Teachers using Clawdemy in classrooms

Print a lesson for a class. Project a lesson during a session. Assign a Clawdemy lesson as homework. Build a worksheet that quotes from Clawdemy content with attribution. This is true for any school context, public, private, secular, religious, K-12 or higher education, including schools that charge tuition. Tuition-funded educational use is non-commercial in the CC BY-NC-SA sense; the tuition funds the educational mission, not a commercial product around our content.

Non-profit educational organizations

Adult literacy programs, public-library workshops, refugee education programs, civic-tech training programs, and similar non-profit educational efforts can use Clawdemy material freely with attribution. If your program is funded by grants or donations rather than sold subscriptions, you are non-commercial in the sense that matters here.

Individual tutors

A tutor who runs paid 1:1 sessions and uses Clawdemy lessons as part of the teaching material is fine, no permission needed. The boundary we care about is at scale and at the commercial-product layer, not at the individual tutor level.

Translators

Translate a lesson into your local language and publish it under the same CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. Notify us at [email protected] if you want a link on a future translations page. We would love to support a multilingual curriculum and have no plans to monetize translations either.

Accessibility adapters

Reformat lessons for screen readers, large-print, plain-language, sign-language, or any accessibility purpose. Share your adapted version under the same license. Tell us about your work; we will link to it from the relevant lessons if it is high quality.

Bloggers, journalists, and researchers

Quote a lesson with attribution. Embed a lesson link in your article. Reference a Clawdemy claim and link back. Fair-use quotation and citation is also clearly fine and does not require a license at all.

Anyone who wants to fork the entire repository

The site source on GitHub at github.com/clawless-io/clawdemy is open. You can clone, fork, study, learn from, and adapt the codebase under the dual-license terms above. We do ask you to rename your fork so we do not get confused for an official Clawdemy product.

What requires permission

The license shifts at the commercial-product boundary. These uses require a commercial license:

Paid training programs and courseware

If you are running a for-profit training company and want to use Clawdemy lesson content as primary material in your paid curriculum, you need a commercial license. This includes corporate training providers, online course platforms, bootcamps, and paid certification programs. Reach out at [email protected] with a description of your program and we will discuss terms.

YouTube, paid podcasts, and ad-supported content channels

If you want to reproduce significant portions of Clawdemy lessons (especially the audio narration, which is also All Rights Reserved) on a YouTube channel that runs ads, a paid Patreon-supported podcast, or any monetized content platform, you need permission. Brief quotation with citation under fair-use principles is fine. Wholesale reproduction is not.

Corporate employee learning platforms

If you want to use Clawdemy lessons as the curriculum inside an internal Learning Management System at a company, a learning experience platform you operate, or any tool that delivers AI literacy training to your employees, you need a commercial license. This is often the cleanest and fastest commercial inquiry to resolve, and we are happy to discuss enterprise terms.

Paid mobile apps that embed Clawdemy content

If you want to build a mobile app, web app, or browser extension that ships with Clawdemy content embedded and that charges users a subscription or one-time fee, you need a commercial license.

Reselling Clawdemy in any form

Reselling Clawdemy lessons, as PDFs, EPUBs, audio bundles, online courses, or any other form, requires permission. Free distribution under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license is fine; paid distribution is not, regardless of the format.

Audio rehosting, restreaming, or repackaging

The MP3 files are All Rights Reserved, separately from the lesson text license. Re-hosting Clawdemy audio on a different RSS feed you control, restreaming it on a Twitch channel, embedding it in YouTube videos, or splicing it into another product all require permission.

How to request a commercial license

Send an email to [email protected] with the following information. The more specific you are, the faster we can respond:

1. Who you are. Your name, your role, your organization, your country.
2. What you want to do. A short description of the intended use, in plain English. “We are a corporate training company in Brazil and want to include three Clawdemy lessons in a paid AI-literacy module for our enterprise customers” is more useful than “we want a commercial license.”
3. Scale. Roughly how many people will see or use the content? Is this a one-time project or an ongoing program?
4. Time frame. When do you need an answer, when do you plan to launch?
5. Specific content. Which lessons, tracks, or audio episodes do you want to license?

We aim to respond within five business days. Some inquiries are simple and resolve in one email; others take a few rounds. We have no automated rejection system; every reasonable inquiry gets a real reply.

Pricing for commercial licenses depends on scale, audience, and use case. We do not publish a fixed rate card because the underlying work varies too much. For a small-scale, time-limited educational pilot, the price may be zero (we have done this). For a multi-year enterprise deployment, we will quote a commercial fee. The conversation starts with the inquiry, not the price.

Edge cases and judgment calls

The “non-commercial” line in CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 is not always crisp. Here is where we land on the most common edge cases:

Schools that charge tuition

Permissive. Accredited K-12 schools, universities, community colleges, and similar institutions are non-commercial educational use in the sense that matters here, even when they charge tuition. The tuition funds education broadly; the content is not the commercial product. Use freely with attribution.

Coaching businesses that use Clawdemy in client engagements

Permissive at individual scale, gray at company scale. A solo coach who occasionally references Clawdemy lessons during paid client sessions is fine. A coaching company with dozens of coaches building their core curriculum from Clawdemy content sits closer to the commercial-product line and should reach out.

Bloggers and Substack writers who quote Clawdemy

Permissive. Brief quotation with citation is clearly fair-use and explicitly permitted under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Wholesale reproduction of full lessons on a paid Substack would shift into commercial-license territory.

AI training data

Reach out. Using Clawdemy lessons as training data for an AI model that you then sell as a commercial product crosses into commercial use. Using Clawdemy lessons as part of a research dataset for a non-commercial academic project is permissible with attribution. The line depends on what is being built and who is benefiting. Email us if you are unsure.

Conferences and workshops

Permissive for free conferences; reach out for paid conferences with significant content reproduction. Referencing or recommending Clawdemy at a paid conference is fine. Building a paid conference workshop around Clawdemy curriculum is a commercial use.

Government and policy use

Permissive. Public-sector AI literacy programs, government training, and policy-related research are explicitly welcome. Reach out if you would like a working relationship for translation or adaptation.

When in doubt, the cost of an email to [email protected] is much lower than the cost of guessing wrong. We default to “yes” for educational and non-profit use and “let’s talk terms” for everything else.

Attribution string

Whether you are sharing freely under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 or operating under a commercial license, please use the following attribution format or its functional equivalent:

Adapted from Clawdemy (https://clawdemy.org), licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

If you have adapted a specific lesson, name it explicitly:

Adapted from “Lesson Title” on Clawdemy (lesson URL), licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Translations and remixes published under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 must be released under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 or a CC-approved compatible license per the CC compatibility chart.

Trademark

The Clawdemy name, logo, and visual identity (the wordmark, the color palette, the brand fonts) are not part of the CC BY-NC-SA license. They remain trademarks of RBJ Global LLC. If you fork the curriculum or build something derivative, please rename your fork and use your own visual identity. We are happy to discuss trademark questions at [email protected] as well.

License history

Before June 11, 2026, Clawdemy lesson content was licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, which permitted commercial use with attribution and ShareAlike. Audio narration was not separately specified.

On June 11, 2026, Clawdemy clarified its actual non-commercial intent by adopting CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 for lesson text content (introducing the NonCommercial clause), explicitly marking audio narration as All Rights Reserved, and keeping code samples under MIT. The change reflects how Clawdemy has always operated in practice and is what allows us to maintain the platform as a sustained public good for individual learners, educators, and non-profits.

Content that was already distributed under CC BY-SA 4.0 prior to June 11, 2026 remains validly licensed under those original terms to the people and organizations that received it before the change. The new CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license applies to all content distribution from June 11, 2026 onwards.

Pro Git (the open-source textbook some Clawdemy lessons cite) is itself licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. The change to CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 for Clawdemy actually improves the licensing alignment between our derivative lessons and our source material.

The full rationale is documented in our internal decisions log (row 30, dated 2026-06-11) and on the LICENSE file in the public repository.

Contact

For licensing inquiries: [email protected]

For general questions: [email protected]

For security disclosures: [email protected]

RBJ Global LLC
Texas, United States

Changelog

• 2026-06-11: Initial publication. Documents the license change from CC BY-SA 4.0 to CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 for lesson text, the All Rights Reserved posture for audio narration, the unchanged MIT license for code samples, and the commercial-license inquiry pathway at [email protected]. Edge-case positions on schools, individual tutors, coaching businesses, and AI training data documented.