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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Can I create a translation for a project under a Creative Commons non-commercial non-derivative?
I am writing a book on Github (Learn-Vim) under the Creative Commons Non-Commercial Non-Derivative 4.0 License. If you're wondering why I selected this particular license, the main reason is because ...
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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 CC-BY-SA-4.0 appropriate for this use case?
The use case is for an image I made from scratch using gimp, I was thinking about using CC-BY-SA-4.0 but I am not sure if it is the right license for this. The image you print out, cut and then you ...
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Project licensed under Apache 2 License but has JS libraries licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
I'm planning to use this open source project for my commercial product. The project itself is licensed under Apache 2.0 license but when I review the package, I found couple of JS libraries that it ...
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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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Can a YouTube video use images licensed under Creative Commons Share Alike (CC BY SA) and not be an adaptation?
I plan to create YouTube videos where the idea is to explain current affairs using the following approach.
Use of animations, text content and images as the visual part.
The voiceover which narrates ...
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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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Possibilities with Creative Commons ND
I am currently having trouble understanding the ND part of Creative Commons licenses.
Let's assume that I have found a database which is being published as CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 DE. Most of the ...
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Can I use CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 content in a webview while keeping the app commercial?
I am developing an app that uses material (the material I want to show is a website) which is licensed with CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 but I want to place ads in my application. The application has another ...
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Is it OK to use content from Wikipedia in an opensource project without attribution?
Wikipedia has a list of English words sorted by frequency. I used that list to create a small hangman game and I would like to put it up on GitHub. The game is probably going to be open-source (GPL). ...
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Should i publish my android app under creative common sharealike license or not? And how?
I am developing one android application in which I am using images licensed under creative common shared alike license(CC BY SA). license is saying "If you remix, transform, or build upon the material,...
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How to require anyone who modifies a work with intent to distribute REMOVE references to the originator?
I'm on an organization's Bylaws Committee and am using a (currently private) GitHub repository to track our proposed changes/amendments. Once the committee's work is complete, the intent is to make ...
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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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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
project. ...
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Can I use CC BY-NC software for machine learning and analysis purposes?
I have a task at work which requires me to build AI that can do general game playing. Contemplating this task, I have found several games that I would like to use in doing training and analysis to ...
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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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What is a good license for a software project template?
I am looking for a suitable license for a current software project. The project is special as it is rather a template, its primary goal is to provide a solid basis for scientific software. Therefore, ...
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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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Can I set my android app as paid which uses Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License IMAGES?
I am have some images which has following license:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
Using these images I am going to make an Android app and sell it via Google play ...
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Can I open-source a design based on a patent?
I am relatively active in the 3D-printing community and have created a design that requires a part that has been patented by a company from the United States in 1997. The part is very rare outside of ...
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What are the consequences for downstream actors of redistributing a work under a wider CC license than the copyright holder authorized?
Say that Company A is an online platform which hosts user-generated content, and to do so Company A requires in its ToS that users license said content publicly under Creative Commons License X.
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Creative Commons ShareAlike, weak or strong copyleft?
I am wondering whether Creative Commons ShareAlike is a weak or strong copyleft license. That is, does it allow linking with code with under a different license?
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Can I license photos of physical products / equipment I took as Creative Commons?
I want to document a scientific experiments I've presenced on a blog post.
To do that, I want to give clear descriptions of each commercial equipment used, and using photos would be a great addition.
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Are Creative Commons licenses suitable for distributing an Excel spreasheet?
I'd like to distribute in a rather open way an Excel spreadsheet I am the creator of, but would like to provide a framework regarding the way this piece of work could be used and re-distributed. In ...
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Creative Commons ShareAlike (CC SA 1.0) is retired and not recommended for use, but there's not a suitable active alternative. Should I not use it?
I have some graphic design creations that I want to allow others to modify if they wish to, as long as their remixed versions have the same permissions.
Creative Commons ShareAlike (CC SA 1.0) ...
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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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Whom to leave link credit while using CC BY images
Normally I use the following format,
Photo by Author / License
Photo: Link to where I found the photo.
Author: Author profile page. For example, flickr profile.
License: Link to the license page.
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My university is asking to choose between BY-SA and GFDL to release my work
An infographic I designed is to be uploaded to my university website. They have asked me to choose between the BY-SA and GFDL to release my work.
I tried looking up the difference but I cannot find ...
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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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Which Creative Commons licenses are permissive enough for proprietary software?
We are releasing a software under a dual license APGLv3/proprietary.
To build it, we are reusing many components availabe on the web. For source code, those components have to be released with a ...
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Can public schools use CC BY-NC content?
Can a fully tax-funded public school use music licensed under CC-BY-NC in a video to promote its educational programs?
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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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Are there official Markdown versions of the CC licenses?
Official plaintext versions of the Creative Commons licenses are available. Are there similarly official Markdown versions?
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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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How to release small part of my code as an opensource plugin to allow free reuse (including by myself at my work)
I am working with Unity3D on a commercial project, and have found that some vital part of working with social accounts is not implemented, namely - authorized API calls. I am almost done implementing ...
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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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Can derivatives of CC BY-SA works be licensed under CC BY-NC-SA?
Does the CC BY-SA license prevent additional restrictions being placed on derivatives?
I'm wondering, if I release a work under BY-SA, can someone else create a derivative and license it under BY-NC-...
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What is derivative work? What is "build upon"?
I have been reading up on Open Source licensing, but there is this one term that I think needs clarification: when is work derivative?
If I have an image viewer that accepts a ZIP file and I ...
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Is re-encoding an audio or video file permitted under CC-BY-ND?
I have a .mp3 file licensed under CC-BY-ND 4.0 and I want to reencode it (without changing the content within) in the Ogg Vorbis format for sharing, but I do not want to violate the CC license.
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Do you become a "Licensor" if you redistribute a work licensed under a CC 3.0 license?
Alice writes a poem and licenses it under any 3.0 Creative Commons license.
Bob copies the poem and publishes it on his blog (with correct attribution).
Alice is Original Author and Licensor. Is Bob ...
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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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How do I specify particular "source code" for a non-software GPL'd work?
Reading this GPL FAQ item on non-software works:
You can apply the GPL to any kind of work, as long as it is clear what constitutes the “source code” for the work.
It says that it must be "clear ...
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How do companies spot when a person is violating their terms and conditions? [closed]
I'm a developer (startup) and I'm working in a few healthcare projects, I prefer Highcharts for data visualization.
My questions are as follows:
1. Why does one purchase a license when one can use ...
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Can I publish my C++ game on GitHub under MIT using art and libraries under others licenses?
Can I publish my C++ game on GitHub under MIT using art and libraries under others licenses?
I want to publish my code on GitHub, but I have some troubles with licensing.
In my game I use GLEW (...
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What are my obligations when citing myself on an SE site for an internal company blog?
I would like to use content I wrote on SE as part of an internal blog. However, I would like to avoid directly linking my SE profile to my RL person.
If I quote material from an SE post written by me,...
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Including a CC BY-SA licensed SVG in a CC BY-NC-SA licensed wiki?
I want to upload a SVG document with a CC BY-SA 3.0 license to an online wiki with a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.
Will these licenses conflict with each other, or can they coexist?
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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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Do I need a highcharts licence if I'm developing software for a non-profit
Highcharts is supposed to be an open source chart project that is free for personal use and for non-profit organisations. For non-profit organisations and individuals it is licensed under the Creative ...
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