TWUSpace NON-EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTION LICENSE (Version 2.0) 2019 Summary: Trinity Western University (TWU) maintains an open access digital repository called TWUSpace, which is part of the British Columbia provincial digital repository network (called Arca), for published and unpublished material created by members of the TWU community. By signing this License, you give TWU the non-exclusive right to copy, distribute, and transmit your Submission over the Internet through TWUSpace on the terms set out below. Visitors to the TWUSpace site will be permitted to use your Submission for non-commercial purposes, as set out in greater detail below. You may assign different licensing terms to govern how the TWUSpace site visitors may use your Submission. The rights you grant to TWU under this License will last in perpetuity. References to TWUSpace include any successor repository designated by TWU. This License grants TWU significant rights and contains important limitations on your rights to your work. Please read it carefully. 1. Your Submission. Your Submission is the material described below, and includes the abstract, associated descriptive information, and any other information you have submitted to TWUSpace in association with that material. Submission Information Thesis Title: Author(s): Student ID(s): Student Email(s): Program (and stream, if applicable): Date: (date of defense) Copyright Owner(s): Publication Details (if Submission previously published): This license is based on the cIRcle Non-Exclusive Distribution License (http://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/52675) 2. Representations and Warranties. You represent and warrant that: [check each box] ✓ all information you have provided about the Submission is, to the best of your knowledge and belief, accurate; if the Submission has more than one author, all co-authors have approved the Submission and have read and agreed to the terms of this License; if the Submission is based upon work that has been sponsored or supported by an organization other than TWU, you have fulfilled any right of review and any other obligations required by the agreement with such sponsor or supporter; the Submission is not subject to any publication delays, except those specified and approved below: Option to embargo submission for 1 period of 6 months* Option to embargo submission for 2 periods of 6 months Explanation for embargo ___________________________________________________ *may be renewed one time for 6 months to a total of 12 months (explanation to be submitted to the VPRGS for approval) ✓ to the best of your knowledge, the use and distribution of the Submission as contemplated in this License will not infringe the copyright or any other intellectual property rights of any other person; if the Submission contains material for which you do not hold copyright and which is not in the public domain, I. you are validly exercising an exception to copyright infringement in accordance with the Copyright Act, or you have obtained the permission of the copyright owner(s) to use the material as contemplated in this License and retained records of such permission; and II. that such third-party owner material is clearly identified and acknowledged within the text or content of the Submission; This license is based on the cIRcle Non-Exclusive Distribution License (http://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/52675) ✓ the Submission does not contain any confidential or proprietary information belonging to others; and ✓ the Submission does not, to the best of your knowledge and belief, contain any libelous or other unlawful matter and does not violate anyone’s right to privacy. You acknowledge that TWUSpace staff have not and will not independently review the Submission and that TWU is relying upon the representations and warranties you have made above. If, at any time hereafter, you learn that any of the foregoing statements are inaccurate, you must contact TWUSpace immediately. 3. Grant of License. In consideration of TWU preserving your Submission in perpetuity in TWUSpace, you hereby grant to TWU the non-exclusive, world-wide, perpetual, and royalty-free right to use, reproduce, display, convert, sublicense and distribute, in any format and any medium, your Submission, for the following purposes: a) uploading and storing your Submission; b) publishing the Submission electronically on the Internet via TWUSpace, which means making your Submission available to the public by telecommunication so that they may view and download your Submission, subject to the public access terms described in Section 5; c) converting your Submission to any medium or format for the purposes of security, back-up, preservation and use of the Submission in accordance with this License; and d) authorizing third-parties to perform any of TWU’s rights described in this Section, on TWU’s behalf. If you are submitting a thesis or dissertation, your grant of rights described above is irrevocable and includes, for greater certainty, TWU authorizing Library and Archives Canada to copy, display, publish, communicate, archive, convert into any format, and make your thesis or dissertation available to the public online or in paper form, all for non-commercial purposes. 4. Publication of your Submission. This License does not affect the ownership of copyright—you maintain whatever rights you have in the Submission. In addition, this License does not contain a waiver of your moral rights to your Submission. However, you have granted important rights to TWU and visitors to TWUSpace, and, therefore, you agree that if you grant others copyright ownership or a license, it will be consistent with the rights you have granted under this License. For example, if you wish to publish your Submission in a journal, you will inform the publisher of the rights you have granted under this License and not agree to terms that restrict those rights. This license is based on the cIRcle Non-Exclusive Distribution License (http://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/52675) 5. Terms of Access by the Public. TWU will make a digital copy of your Submission available in TWUSpace for the public to view and copy for non- commercial purposes only, without prior permission or charge, provided that your Submission is not altered in any way and is properly acknowledged, including citing the author(s), title and full bibliographic details. (Note: this corresponds to the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs, or CC BY-NC-ND Creative Commons license) TWU may, in its discretion, make your Submission available pursuant to a Creative Commons license (or other licensing platform), on similar terms. If you wish to assign different license terms to your Submission (for example, a different Creative Commons license), you must inform TWUSpace as part of the submission process to TWUSpace, and the terms of that license shall apply to your Submission. Public access to your Submission may be withheld for an agreed upon period of time. Contact TWUSpace for discussions. 6. Attribution. TWU will attribute the Submission as you have indicated in Section 1 or as you may notify TWU from time to time, and not alter the Submission except as allowed by this License or with your prior permission. 7. Release and Indemnification. You agree that you will not hold TWU responsible for any use or misuse of your Submission by third-parties who access the Submission through TWUSpace. You agree to indemnify and hold TWU harmless against any loss, damage, claim, liability, settlement cost or expense (including legal fees) incurred by TWU and arising out of or in connection with TWU’s use of your Submission pursuant to this License, and, for greater certainty, any of the statements in Section 2 being inaccurate. I have read, understand and agree to the terms set out in this License. This License may be delivered and/or stored by electronic means, and such electronic copy delivered to and stored by TWU will be deemed to be the official record of this License. Date: Oct 22, 2025 ________________________________ Byungsuk Kim Signature: _____________________________ Print Name: ______________________________ Signature: _____________________________ Print Name: ______________________________ Signature: _____________________________ Print Name: ______________________________ Signature: _____________________________ Print Name: ______________________________ This license is based on the cIRcle Non-Exclusive Distribution License (http://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/52675)