The catalogue
Sources
94 sources, triaged by content-reuse licence (93 done, 1 pending). Open means we may extract and store the content, restricted means link-only, and unknown means no clear signal was found.
13 of 94 sources (filtered · clear)
- CampaigningResource libraryOpen
Activist Handbook: The Wikipedia for activists
Open-sourced, collaborative library of guides across disciplines
Activist Handbook ↗Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0evidence ↗Why this verdict?
The site's /about page explicitly states "All our work is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence, unless otherwise noted" and describes free redistribution/repurposing for non-commercial use. The /share page reiterates this and points users to attribute Activist Handbook when reusing content. This is a clear, site-wide licence statement covering the substantive content (guides/handbooks), though NonCommercial and ShareAlike conditions apply, and "unless otherwise noted" leaves room for per-page exceptions not individually checked.
- CampaigningToolsOpen
Civic Tool Finder
Tools 'using tech for the common good'
Civic Tech Field Guide ↗Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0evidence ↗Why this verdict?
The source URL app.civictech.guide/tools is the "Tool Finder" directory front-end (a Softr app) of the Civic Tech Field Guide; its page metadata sets og:site_name="Civic Tech Field Guide" and ties back to the civictech.guide domain. That project's site (footer + Terms of Service at civictech.guide/terms/) carries an explicit site-wide licence: a "License" heading, a Creative Commons badge linking to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/, and the verbatim statement "This guide and directory are free to use, re-use, adapt, and modify for non-commercial purposes as long as you link back with attribution. (Creative Commons BY NC SA)". This is a recognised open reuse licence, so extracting and storing the curated/directory content is permitted, subject to BY-NC-SA conditions: attribution with a link back, non-commercial use only, and share-alike under the same licence. Caveats: (1) the licence covers the guide/directory content authored by CTFG, not the thousands of listed third-party tools/projects, which carry their own separate licences (content-vs-embedded distinction); (2) WebFetch returned 403 on the WordPress pages so the terms text was confirmed via direct HTTP fetch of the raw HTML rather than the rendered page; (3) the /tools app itself is JS-rendered and shows no separate in-app licence, so the verdict rests on the parent project's site-wide notice.
- CampaigningToolsOpen
Democracy Club data sets
Comprehensive election data in the UK
Democracy Club ↗Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0) — applies to Democracy Club's election/candidate datasetsevidence ↗Why this verdict?
Democracy Club's own Candidates API documentation states explicitly: "The data on this site is provided under the Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) licence", linking to creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. This is corroborated by the developer API terms, which require attribution ("Attribute Democracy Club, ideally with a link to our website"), and by the site's Privacy & Terms page, which says candidate data "becomes open data available to anyone." So for Democracy Club's core election/candidate data, extracting and storing it is permitted provided you credit Democracy Club. Caveats: (1) This open licence is asserted for the DATA, not the marketing/prose pages of democracyclub.org.uk itself, whose footer is a plain all-rights-reserved copyright with no reuse grant; (2) embedded third-party data is explicitly excluded — the developer portal carries "Contains OS data © Crown copyright", "Royal Mail copyright" and "National Statistics" notices, and party logos derive from the Electoral Commission, none of which fall under DC's CC BY; (3) older DC material referenced CC BY-SA (ShareAlike), so a given dataset's exact licence should be confirmed at source. The live API is in private beta requiring a key, but that is an access gate, not a reuse restriction. This is triage, not legal advice.
- CampaigningToolkitOpen
Digital First Aid Kit
Diagnostic guide walking activists through digital-security problems
Digital First Aid Kit ↗Licence: CC BY 4.0evidence ↗Why this verdict?
The homepage displays a "Licence: CC BY 4.0" badge linking to creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, and states the resource is a collaborative effort of Rapid Response Network (RaReNet) and CiviCERT, noting it is open-source (GitLab repo) and welcomes contributions/forks/translations. Web search corroborates this: the site consistently describes itself as CC BY 4.0 licensed, permitting reuse, sharing, and adaptation with attribution. No indication of per-page exceptions or conflicting all-rights-reserved notices was found.
- CampaigningResource libraryOpen
How to' guides
Network of anti-oppressive organizers from around the world that share their skills
Blueprints for Change ↗Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International)evidence ↗Why this verdict?
The website chrome itself (homepage, guides index, about, manual pages) has no footer copyright notice or dedicated licence/terms page — only a loose statement on the guides index that content "can be downloaded and shared freely among progressives." However, each guide is a Google Doc, and the actual documents carry an explicit licence line. I checked two different guides (Systems Thinking for Campaigning & Organizing; Distributed Organizing) and both end with the identical sentence "This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License." This is a genuine CC licence, so it counts as open reuse per the rubric, but note it's the NC variant (attribution required, non-commercial use only) and the statement is embedded per-document rather than declared site-wide; only 2 of ~34 listed guides were sampled directly.
- CampaigningToolkitOpen
OFA Legacy Trainings
Toolkits, tactics guides and digital-organising trainings (legacy archive)
Organizing for Action ↗Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0evidence ↗Why this verdict?
The given pantheonsite.io URL 403s bots, but it is a Pantheon-hosted mirror of "OFA Legacy Trainings," whose production domain (ofalegacytrainings.com) states site-wide on its homepage: "All of these materials are licensed for reuse and adaptation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license," hyperlinked to creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. This is an explicit, clear content-reuse permission for the training materials (slides, worksheets, toolkits). Caveat: CC BY-NC restricts commercial use, and individual sub-pages (e.g. the toolkits/tactics listing) don't repeat the statement per-resource, so treat it as a site-wide declared policy rather than confirmed on every single page.
- CampaigningToolkitOpen
Surveillance Self-Defense
Tips, tools and how-tos for safer online communications
Electronic Frontier Foundation ↗Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International)evidence ↗Why this verdict?
The Surveillance Self-Defense homepage footer (ssd.eff.org, part of the eff.org site family) displays a "Copyright (CC BY)" notice linking to EFF's copyright page. That page explicitly states "Any and all original material on the EFF website may be freely distributed at will under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY)" and that "Permission to do such things is explicitly granted," with attribution required. Caveat: this applies to EFF's original material — the policy notes third-party content (e.g. some embedded images, quotes, or partner-authored material) may not be covered and would need separate clearance; I did not find a per-guide licence footer distinct from the site-wide notice, so treating this as a site-wide CC BY policy that applies to SSD content by default.
- CampaigningResource libraryOpen
The Engine Room Library
The Engine Room Library
The Engine Room ↗Licence: Creative Commons — per-resource, mix of CC BY-SA 4.0 and CC BY-NC-SA 4.0evidence ↗Why this verdict?
The HTML chrome of theengineroom.org (homepage, the /library/ archive, individual resource pages, and /about) shows only "Copyright © 2026. The Engine Room. All Rights Reserved" and no Creative Commons link (confirmed by raw-HTML grep), and /terms, /copyright, /legal, /privacy-policy all 404 — so the wrapper pages look all-rights-reserved. But the actual library content is the downloadable report PDFs, and every publication I sampled (2018, 2019, 2024) carries an explicit CC notice on its credits page, e.g. "The text of this work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License" (by-sa/4.0) and, for the Nov-2024 report, CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (by-nc-sa/4.0); the Information Ecosystems subdomain footer also states CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Since the library exists to distribute these openly-licensed publications, the content is reusable, hence open. Caveats: the licence is stated per-resource inside each PDF (not site-wide) and varies between BY-SA (adapt + commercial OK) and BY-NC-SA (non-commercial only), so each item must be checked individually; the notices license "the text of this work," so embedded third-party images/figures and any all-rights-reserved web pages are not covered. This is triage, not legal advice.
- CampaigningPlaybooks/guides/toolkitsOpen
Toolbox
Campaigning toolbox
Beautiful Trouble ↗Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0evidence ↗Why this verdict?
Both the homepage footer and an individual toolbox tactic page (banner-hang) carry an identical notice: "Beautiful Trouble by Beautiful Trouble, various authors is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License," linking to creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/. This is independently corroborated by a 2017 Creative Commons blog post specifically describing Beautiful Trouble's toolbox and book content as openly licensed under CC BY-NC-SA. Note the licence is NonCommercial and ShareAlike, so downstream commercial reuse and mixing with differently-licensed content would need care, though it qualifies as "open" per CC licence criteria.
- CampaigningSubscriptions (youtube, newsletters, publications)Open
Toolkits
Guides for a quick start on key activities in community work
Community Tool Box ↗Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0evidence ↗Why this verdict?
The Community Tool Box (ctb.ku.edu) carries a site-wide footer notice "Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License" linking to creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/, confirmed on the homepage, the toolkit table-of-contents page, and an individual toolkit resource page (no differing per-item licence observed). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 is a recognized open/free-culture licence that explicitly permits copying, redistributing, and adapting the material, so extracting and storing content for an internal, non-commercial library is permitted — subject to attribution (APA-style citation requested), non-commercial use only, and ShareAlike on any adaptations. Caveat: the site's "Use Policy" adds friction that partly conflicts with the CC grant (it says files cannot be altered or distributed without written permission, and requires contact/fees for commercial use, paid workshops, and republication in printed publications); if your use is non-commercial internal reference this is open, but commercial redistribution or printed republication would need direct permission. Further caveat: the licence applies to CTB's own content, not any embedded third-party material, and the "© All Rights Reserved" line alongside the CC badge is the standard CC pattern, not a contradiction.
- CampaigningPlaybooks/guides/toolkitsOpen
What do you need to protect?
List of key resources for campaigners on digital security
Security in a box ↗Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0evidence ↗Why this verdict?
The homepage footer of securityinabox.org explicitly states "This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International" with a direct link to creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. This is a site-wide notice applying to the guide content published by Front Line Defenders. A secondary web search reference mentioned an older "CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported" label, indicating the license was updated to 4.0 over time; the current live footer is treated as authoritative.
- CampaigningResource libraryOpen
Written guides
Guides designed to help create more effective campaigns, co-ops or projects
Seeds for Change ↗Licence: Anti-copyright (copyleft share-alike statement; no formal named licence)evidence ↗Why this verdict?
The guides index page (the cited source) carries an explicit, unambiguous site-wide reuse grant for the content in scope: "All Seeds for Change guides are anti-copyright. Feel free to copy, adapt, use and distribute them, as long as the final work remains anti-copyright." This is a free/open copyleft statement (explicit permission to copy, adapt and distribute) with a single share-alike condition that derivatives stay anti-copyright, plus a non-binding request to be notified of translations. The statement was confirmed verbatim on two fetches and corroborated by third parties (Activist Handbook, Commons Library). Caveats: the declaration lives on the /guides listing page and applies to "all guides"; individual guide pages and the homepage do not repeat it, and there is no named licence (e.g. CC) or dedicated /copyright or /terms page (both returned 404 / nothing). The grant covers Seeds for Change's own guide content only; any embedded third-party material would need separate checking. This is triage, not legal advice.
- CampaigningTrainingsOpen
e-Learning courses
Data and digital e-learning courses for activists (channel archive; org no longer active)
Advocacy Assembly ↗Licence: CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution)evidence ↗Why this verdict?
Correction to the initial triage, which inferred all-rights-reserved from the defunct org's cached terms page. Every video sampled (9 of them) states 'Creative Commons Attribution licence (reuse allowed)' in its own watch-page metadata row — the videos themselves carry CC BY regardless of what the old site said. Per-video licence is recorded in taxonomy by the adapter.