Questions tagged [creative-commons]
For questions about the Creative Commons licenses and the organization behind them. There are many Creative Commons licenses, so if you are asking a question about a specific license be sure to state which one.
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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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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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What do I need to share if I include CC-BY-SA artwork in my software?
CC-BY-SA is a Creative Commons license with a copyleft clause - if you derive something from it, you must also provide the derivative under the same license if you distribute it. The relevant clause ...
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May someone else apply a license to CC0 material?
Alice licensed her work under CC0 1.0.
May Bob take Alice’s work and publish it under another Creative Commons license (e.g., CC BY-SA)?
If yes, may Bob publish it under his own name (i.e., not ...
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Do I have to exclude quotations in the license notice?
I want to publish a blog post under a Creative Commons license (e.g., CC BY-SA 4.0). This post includes several quotations (to the extent allowed by copyright law) from works which are not licensed ...
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Does the CC-BY-SA License require that source code of derivative works be shared?
For example, if I create a LaTeX file and license it with CC BY SA, can someone create a derivative work, but only publish the PDF, without giving out the derived LaTeX source code?
Does this fall ...
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Can I leave out parts of a CC BY-ND licensed work when distributing it?
I want to redistribute a work licensed under CC BY-ND 3.0.
The license summary says about ND (NoDerivatives):
If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the ...
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Using CC-BY-SA images in a CC-BY-NC-SA document
I am creating a presentation that includes some unmodified images licensed under either CC-BY, CC-BY-SA version 2.0, 3.0 or 4.0 (no CC-BY-SA 4.0) and some public domain images. They are all attributed....
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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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Can I "upgrade" the version of CC BY-SA from 3.0 to 4.0 in my modification?
What I'm doing:
I'm adapting a work licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported license to a different language.
I'm indicating the original work and its license.
I'm indicating that I have made changes to ...
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Using CC-NC material inside a freemium app
I want to include a bunch of images licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA inside my freemium web software.
The user can choose one or more of these images to make her own composition. This part of the ...
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Using SVG icons with CC-BY-4.0 license
The license states - "In the Font Awesome Free download, the CC BY 4.0 license applies to all icons packaged as .svg and .js files types.
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Attribution is required by MIT, SIL OFL, and CC BY ...
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Are permissive licenses (MIT/BSD/zlib) compatible with CC-BY?
Permissive licenses like MIT only require that you include the license text if you redistribute.
CC licenses that have the BY part require that the original authors are attributed, but in flexible ...
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Protect public project from potential patents
We have a simple 3D-printable object, which can be used as a medical aid. We would like to publish this object free to use to the public.
We would like to keep this object and further revisions and ...
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How to attribute Creative Commons images in a quiz game (mobile app)?
I am a mobile developer and trying to work on a mobile application which will be something like the Guess the City app.
The app will display four landmarks on one screen and the player will have to ...
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Is Stack Exchange's CC-BY-SA v3.0 content compatible with the GPL?
Currently, all user submitted content is licensed under "cc by-sa 3.0 with attribution required". This shows up at the bottom of each page:
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Can Wikipedia content be used on my website if I attribute it on my terms and conditions page?
Can Wikipedia written content and images be used on my website, without a direct recognition on the page it is used. Perhaps place any thanks/recognition in the terms and conditions of my page.
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When to use a ported (instead of an international) CC 3.0 license?
If I want to license my work under a Creative Commons 3.0 license, I could use:
the international/unported version
the version ported for my jurisdiction
(For example, in case of CC BY-SA 3.0: CC BY-...
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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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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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Choosing a License for a Tutorial Site
I apologize in advance for what is probably a dumb question, but I'm trying to do this the right way from the beginning.
I'm putting together a coding tutorial site, and my main question boils down ...
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Does it make sense to license my content under a more restrictive license if it's licensed CC-BY-SA?
Let's say that I make a post on a Stack Exchange site. That content is owned by me, but I gave the company a perpetual and irrevocable license under Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0. As ...
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Can someone re-license an adaptation of my CC BY-NC materials under commercial terms?
In the comments below this answer, it is stated that while there is no ShareAlike clause (that would be CC BY-NC-SA), you would not be allowed to re-license Adapted Materials under commercial terms.
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Do I have to mention the CC license twice?
In section 3(a) of the Creative Commons Attribution license (and I think all the others too) it says:
If You Share the Licensed Material (including in modified form), You must:
A. retain ...
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How do search engines read image licence?
It's easy to search for images published under a creative commons licence in search engines, I just have to fine-tune my search options.
But how do I get my images with their licence on the web ? Is ...
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Using modified CC BY-SA 4.0 images in app?
I am building an application and I want to use OpenMoji in it, but with modified colors.
Firstly, I wanted to add
All emojis designed by OpenMoji – the open-source emoji and icon
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Can I sell closed source software which uses some CC BY-NC-SA code?
Can I sell software which uses someone else's code which is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported?
The software is closed source, and aside from the borrowed code, is ...
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Using output of a CC BY-NC AI algorithm in a commercial product?
If I use nvidia's stylegan, which is CC BY-NC, to generate images that then will be part of a dataset used as input of my own ML algorithm, do I infringe the stylegan license if I make a remuneration ...
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Attribution of resources under CC-BY-SA
This seeems like such a simple question but having a hard time finding a definitive answer. Apologies if it has been asked before (and it feels like it should). Please point me in the right direction ...
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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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Can I use data licensed under Creative Commons for closed source propriety software?
I am interested in using data distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC-By-SA) license. A subset of it can be extracted, which will fall under a Creative Commons ...
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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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Can Wikidata which runs under CC-Zero incorporate CC BY content?
Wikidata is a database licensed under CC-Zero.
If Wikidata would include CC BY content with Wikidata properly labeling the source, would that be okay? Or do third-parties that want to reuse the ...
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Is it possible to have a non-comercial license, while allowing commercial use of derivative works and further modification of the derivative work?
This is a somewhat complicated situation, and I have trouble finding a Creative Commons license that is appropriate.
Here is what I want the license to do:
Others should be able to redistribute my ...
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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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