# Attribution and Third-Party Materials

The *Trailblazer Trek: Texas Government Interactive Modules* is an open
educational resource created by Jared Alan Stewart (Tarrant County College)
and licensed under **CC BY 4.0** (see `LICENSE`). This file records the
third-party materials the project incorporates or adapts, so that their
creators are credited and their licenses are honored. **Anyone who reuses
this project must keep these attributions intact.**

## Adapted text

Portions of the instructional text are adapted from:

- **OpenStax, *American Government* (3e/4e).** Rice University. Licensed
  under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
  (CC BY 4.0). Access the original for free at
  <https://openstax.org/details/books/american-government-3e>.
  **Changes were made:** the OpenStax text was condensed, reorganized for
  Texas Government, supplemented with Texas-specific content, and converted
  into interactive HTML learning modules.

Per the CC BY 4.0 license, OpenStax content is used with attribution; this
adaptation is not endorsed by OpenStax or Rice University.

## Images

- **Wikimedia Commons.** Historical images and photographs are drawn from
  Wikimedia Commons. Individual images are in the public domain or under
  their own Creative Commons licenses; the source and status are noted in
  the caption or alternative text of each image within the modules. When
  reusing an image, consult its original Wikimedia Commons page for the
  exact license and any required attribution.

## Reference sources (linked, not reproduced)

The modules link to — but do not copy — the following for further study.
These remain the property of their owners and are **not** covered by this
project's CC BY license:

- **Handbook of Texas Online**, Texas State Historical Association
  (<https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook>). Free to access; not openly
  licensed. Linked as a reference; where quoted, quoted only briefly with
  attribution under fair use.
- **Texas Constitution and Statutes**, Texas Legislative Council
  (<https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/>). Public government records.

## Software and scaffolding

The HTML, CSS, and JavaScript scaffolding (navigation, scoring, resume,
completion report, and audit tooling) was written for this project and is
released under the same CC BY 4.0 terms as the content, unless a more
permissive code license is added later.

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If you believe any material is attributed incorrectly, please open an issue
on the project's GitHub repository.