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Icons:

The icons on this site, with the exception of the Merit symbol ( and in the top-left corner) and user-submitted icons, are taken or derived from the Crystal Clear icon set by Everaldo Coelho. These icons are licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

The names "Merit Exchange" and "Merit Exchange LLC", and the merit symbol, are trademarks(™) in use by Merit Exchange LLC: in addition to legal fair use of the name and symbol, you may use, modify, and display the merit symbol subject to the following restrictions:

• You may use it to refer only to Merit Exchange, to the company Merit Exchange LLC, or to the currency of merits within Merit Exchange.
• If you use the merit symbol in a link or button in an application or website, the symbol must link to Merit Exchange's main page: (http://meritexchange.com/), or must be an explicitly-approved button provided by Merit Exchange for linking to a specific page.
• You may modify the merit symbol and use modified versions of it, such as using a single strike-through so as to write the symbol in HTML: (m), or changing the colors or fonts. Such derived symbols are still subject to the same restrictions.

User-submitted content:

You may not reuse user icons or any user-submitted material unless explicitly stated. The copyrights of these icons and any user-submitted material may belong to the users who submitted them, but this cannot be assumed.

Content hosted on other sites:

The website, meritexchange.com, displays images and other content hosted on other websites that are not managed by Merit Exchange LLC. Such content may be (and indeed is likely to be) copyrighted by a third-party.

Other Content:

Unless otherwise noted, all other material on the site is copyright 2009 © Merit Exchange LLC, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License:

When no author is specified, material from this site should be attributed to Merit Exchange. If an author of any material is specified, that material should be attributed to Merit Exchange and to the author.