License
We built this to be used. Quote it, teach from it, republish it, build on it. All we ask is credit.
Original text, tables and data on Seychelles Abroad are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). You may copy, share, adapt and republish them, including commercially, if you credit "Seychelles Abroad" and link to the page you used. Member data, mirrored press releases and third-party datasets are not ours to license and are excluded.
What the license covers
Everything we wrote and everything we compiled: the articles, the guides, the reference pages, the tables we assembled, the datasets we will publish, the site's original images and graphics. All of it is CC BY 4.0.
That means you may share it, quote it at any length, adapt it, translate it, and republish it, in a newspaper, a classroom, a thesis, a wiki, another website, without asking permission, including for commercial use.
The one condition
Attribution. Credit Seychelles Abroad and link (or cite) the page you used. A line like this is perfect:
Source: Seychelles Abroad, "The history of Seychelles", seychellesabroad.org/sesel/history/ (CC BY 4.0).
Every reference page has a Cite this page block with ready-made citations in APA, MLA and Chicago, plus BibTeX and RIS downloads for reference managers.
What is not covered
- Member and registry data. Never licensed, never shared, never for sale, at any price, to anyone. See privacy.
- Mirrored press releases on the Bulletin. Those texts and images belong to the offices that issued them, State House and the MFA, and are republished here with credit. Our license cannot and does not apply to them.
- Third-party data we cite or build on. Wikipedia-derived tables remain CC BY-SA, GeoNames remains CC BY, UN and government data remain under their own terms. Our per-page bibliography tells you what came from where, so you can respect the original license when you reuse the underlying data.
- The Seychelles flag, coat of arms and other state symbols, which belong to the Republic.
Why we license this way
Because reuse is the mission. A diaspora reference that nobody may quote is a locked museum. CC BY is how our work becomes teaching material in a Saturday school in London, a citation in a thesis in Perth, and a paragraph in an article in Victoria, with a thread always leading back to the source, and the source always open to check.