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As of the Initial Publication Date, all individual articles within the Collective Work “Summer of Protocols” by the Ethereum Foundation (2023) are licensed by their respective authors under CC BY-NC 4.0.
As of the Change Date, all of the same individual articles within the Collective Work are licensed by their respective authors under CC BY 4.0.
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Publisher: Stifung Ethereum (“The Ethereum Foundation”)
Collective Work: Summer of Protocols, 2023
Licensed Work: Each individual Article included within the Collective Work
Licensor: Each individual Author of each respective Article included within the Collective Work, as denoted within the Collective Work.
First License Type: CC BY-NC 4.0 | Initial Publication Date: December 13, 2023
Second License Type: CC BY 4.0 | Change Date: December 13, 2026
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