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Tagged with creative-commons licensing
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Can one of several heirs of a copyright release it under a Creative Commons license, and if so, how?
Alice created a work and died without publishing it. Bob and Charlie jointly inherited the copyright. All three live(d) in the United States. Bob wants to publish the work under a Creative Commons ...
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using external images of multiple different licenses in a single document-oriented project
I am working on a project to create (in PDF) letter charts for children for alphabet learning. This involves a number of different pictures from different sources (but mostly Wikipedia) and different ...
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Creative Common license excluding non-humans, excluding web scraping?
The Creative Common license (and other licenses as well) gives (or not) authorizations to other humans to use, adapt, and modify licensed work. However, more and more, the licensed work is being used ...
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Can I accept donations under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0?
There is a repository of code that I would like to use to run a website. The code is under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license, as the ...
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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 rights as a contributor to the original repository on Github
There is a repository of code that I have made pull requests and added code to, and that code that I have contributed is in the master branch. The code is under the Creative Commons Attribution-...
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Is there a license similar to the CC BY-SA license that is copyleft but allows source-unreadable derivatives to be released?
I'm looking for a license that's similar to the CC BY-SA license that allows people to use my code for whatever purpose as long as they license derivative works under the same license. The distinction ...
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How to effectively communicate the license of database content?
I'm working on a project make some New Zealand government data available to the public under the Creative Commons license. The access to the data will be directly to a PostgreSQL database (read-only, ...
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Would a YouTuber fall in trouble for recording a walkthough of a Game that uses music licensed under CC BY 3.0?
I'm basically developing a Game with a background music licensed under the CC BY 3.0 along with couple of other music/sound effects.
Now suppose a YouTuber/Gamer in future decides to publish a walk-...
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Doubts with CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 learning material
I have access to a learning material(docs/solutions) which is licensed under XYZ Training - ABC Product Copyright (C) 2019 - 2021 XYZ. All rights reserved. The software in this package is published ...
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Does CC BY-SA 4.0 license apply to statistical analysis based on code blocks in CC BY-SA 4.0 licensed document?
I am planning on writing a science text under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. The text will contain code blocks for commonly preformed analysis from the relevant field of study. Additionally, it will use ...
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How do I add contributors to the attribution/ownership part of the CC BY-SA 4.0 licensing statement of my work?
The manuscript I will be working on is an original work that I am currently starting by myself. I am writing the work in LaTex, and the manuscript will have code blocks included within the text. I ...
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(CC) Licensing a template with more protection for template than derived works
Let's say I have a template for writing a certain kind of report (say a Word file that offers instructions and a structure). I now want to avoid that someone commercializes that template, so I'd share ...
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Attempting to understand CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 followup
As a followup to my earlier question, I'm having trouble understanding the section about derivatives.
From About The Licenses concerning CC BY-NC-ND:
This license is the most restrictive of our six ...
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Attempting to understand CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
I was wondering if I could get clarification on the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence.
Suppose if I uploaded to my Github repository a .pdf of a technical book I've written and want to share. According to CC BY-...
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Are old copies of "mistakenly licensed" OSS still subject to their previous licenses, even after "fixing"?
I want to publish the source of a program which borrows some code from project A. Years ago, A's maintainers forked it from project B (which has no apparent license) and licensed it as MIT. Several ...
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Selling images licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 in game
I am making a game. It is free-to-play. Is it legal to take the top-hat from the Emoji One (v1) icon set licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 and sell it as an in-game cosmetic items?
https://iconify.design/...
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Can I prevent the National Security Agency from using my work?
I am currently working on a research project in a subfield of computer/data science that concerns a topic whose research seems to have worrying correlations with the U.S. National Security Agency due ...
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Book & Writer data for commercial use (goodreads contradictory behaviour)
I am working on small app for searching authors and their works. I had quite issues with finding reasonable and clean data. Main problem was a licence of usage and since I plan to use data for ...
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Can I use documentation licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 in an application?
There is a very complex API endpoint with a documentation licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Due to its complexity, I am considering developing a commercial visual drag & drop editor (single-page web ...
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Is it common to licence blog posts under Creative Commons?
I plan on writing a personal blog, which will be mostly about software development topics. It's going to be implemented as a Github Pages blog on my own custom domain.
I am debating whether I should ...
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Choose or write a proper license [duplicate]
Is there a proper license (I have already checked MIT, LGPL, CC licenses),
which fits the following needs (conditions), or it has to be specify some way?
BY (from CC): Attribution needed
SA (from CC):...
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Seeking Creative-Commons-like license with addition(s) to request or require modifications be contributed back to source [duplicate]
Do any licenses exist that might serve the purposes below? If not, what licenses might be similarly useful?
Initial license goals
"Drive updates back to the source." My team seeks Creative-Commons-...
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Is use of Creative Common's BY-SA licensed database in software 'adaption'?
I am building a functionality in my propriety software for translation of names between Spanish (and other languages) and English. The translation function works by typing words in Spanish which then ...
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What is the correct way to receive and give attribution to CC BY-SA asset contributions on a project managed with git?
The Creative Commons website gives this example for giving attribution to an image that was found on a website. For this project, contributors who wish to contribute assets would be sending the assets ...
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Can I change the license of re-written code?
The is a single file source code that I have used as a base for my little project. That source code already works as it is.
The problem is its syntaxes, variable naming, spacing, and so many unused ...
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Use of Creative Commons licenses by an anonymous user
As part of a survey (collecting environmental data from the public) my participants can choose to provide their name or to contribute anonymously. Part of the survey includes submission of photos that ...
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Can I use a CC-BY-SA licensed image as part of my online course's cover (commercial use)?
I'm creating online course about coding with the Express JavaScript framework, whose site and logo are licensed under the CC-BY-SA license.
Since my course is about Express, I want to use Express's ...
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Creative Commons: Unported vs. Generic vs. International etc
I'm a big user of Creative Common licenses and I often used https://creativecommons.org/choose/ in the past to find the right license to use.
However, I now see many suffixes for CC Attribution ...
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CC BY-SA – Do I need to open source my app if I don’t really distribute it?
I started developing a commercial web application that uses spaCy – a MIT-licensed library for natural language processing. In order to use this library, one needs to initialize a processing pipeline ...
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Can CC BY 4.0 content be adapted into a CC BY-SA 3.0 work?
If an original work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0), can an adapted work (i.e. derivative work) be made from it and published under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC ...
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Does CreativeCommon ShareAlike allow logo removal or rebranding
I am the author of a open source library for websites that is licensed under LGPL. To make this library easy to use for non-developers I plan to create a simple to use UI-component based on the ...
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What license to use and how to handle copyright disclaimer?
I'm currently building a website for a small, local soccer club. I'm building it, based on a template of html5up.net/. As far as I know, their only requirement for doing so is that I give them credit. ...
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Distribute SWF (binary) files with open source license?
Is it possible to distribute binary files using any open source or Creative Commons license? In particular, I have several Flash videos (.swf files) whose sources (.fla files) are not available/lost. ...
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CC Licence and Automatically Retrieving Linked Content from a Source
I was reading this topic about users posting content to a community and not having the right to "take it down" later on. It got me to thinking about communities which might have a system to ...
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Why is CC BY-SA discouraged for code?
Everybody knows that you shouldn't use a CC BY-SA license on your code. Even the Creative Commons folk recommend against it. What I don't know or understand is why. I can't seem to find any ...
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Can I charge expenses for a work under CC BY-NC-SA?
I have a 3d printer that I use to print some models. There is a model I like that is licensed in Creative Commons under the Attribution - Non-Commercial - Share Alike license.
I am not sure what "...
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Can I apply one license to specific users and another to others?
Suppose I am a developer. I am developing a piece of software. I decide I want to make this code open source. But... I only want developers (or people that will be using the code in other projects) to ...
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Why shouldn't Creative Commons licenses be used for software? [duplicate]
Suppose I was finishing up an open source software. I needed to license it under an open source license.
My question:
Why would I not want to license my software under a Creative Commons license?
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How do I stop republication under a different license?
Suppose I am finishing an open source software. I am about to publish it but I just have to choose the license. I want it to be a CC-BY license but I don't want anyone to republish it under ANY other ...
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Is the BY-NC-ND license the most strict CC license for my open source project?
Suppose I am working on an open source project. I am nearly finished, and about to publish it. I would like to release it to the public so that they can learn and make their own version but I DO NOT ...
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Could you apply a CC-BY license to a piece of land? [closed]
Suppose you are a land owner. You own a large piece of land containing lots of amazing fossils and other important pieces of history. To share this with the world you decide you want to allow ANYONE ...
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What can I do if there is no CC ported license in my country?
Background:
Suppose I am developing an open source project. I am at the stage where I need to license my software. After doing research I find out that I live in a place where there is no ported CC ...
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What is the difference between a ported and non-ported licenses?
What I know:
From what I have read ported licenses are for specific locations while non-ported licenses have been customized to work in as many places as possible.
Question:
Even though I license ...
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Are Creative Commons licenses enforceable in the event of a breach?
Scenario:
I am building a website with my business partner. This website is going to contain information that we do not want to be reused. To do this I am going to release it under a creative commons ...
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How can I license my content in a blogpost?
Let's say I have a blog post, and I want to release it under a Creative Commons license. I later publish this post to my blog.
How do I apply a license to my blogpost?
Do I need to state how it is ...
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When does code become my own?
I am developing a piece of software. The software is based on a piece of open source software. My question is how much must be changed / edited before I can call it my own? Also how do you classify ...
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How could using code released under CC0 infringe on the author's patents?
Creative Commons defines a CC0 license type (here's the full legal code) that claims to allow creators to release their works into the public domain by waiving "all their copyright and related rights ...
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