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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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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Sharing CC BY licensed material without offering a way to be contacted
Section 3(a)(3) of the license CC BY 4.0:
If requested by the Licensor, You must remove any of the information required by Section 3(a)(1)(A) to the extent reasonably practicable.
While it does ...
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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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Is CC BY attribution transitive?
CC BY (4.0) is a flexible, permissive license that requires attributing the licensor.
What if: Alice creates an artwork and distributes under CC BY, which is adapted by Bob who also distributes under ...
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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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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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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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Do I have to retain the copyright notice exactly where it’s specified?
CC BY-SA 4.0 says the following about Attribution:
1. If You Share the Licensed Material (including in modified form), You must:
A retain the following if it is supplied by the ...
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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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Why is the CC sampling+ license incompatible with other CC licenses?
Creative Commons used to publish a license called "Sampling Plus", but according to this page, it was retired/deprecated in 2011 due to inadequate demand and "Not compatible with any other CC license"....
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Using only a part of a collaboratively created work – whom to attribute?
On sites like Stack Overflow and Wikipedia (both use CC BY-SA 3.0), users can collaboratively create/edit a work. If I distribute such a work, I have to attribute all contributing users.
But what if I ...
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What can I do if there is no CC ported license in my country?
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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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In a Wikipedia article am I able to insert information licensed with CC BY even though they use a CC BY-SA license?
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While writing an article on Wikipedia I needed to include text that is licensed under a CC-BY license. After a bit of digging I found that Wikipedia uses a CC BY-SA license.
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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.
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Even though I license ...
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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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What is a Creative Commons Free Cultural Work?
Upon choosing a license at the Creative Commons page, Creative Commons tells you if the license is a "Free Culture License", or whether it isn't.
What is a Free Cultural Work?
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What would be a good licence for computable data models?
What would be a good license for computable data models? Technically they're source code, but they're always constrained and transformed to other artifacts before being used in actual software. At the ...
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Are Creative Commons licenses enforceable in the event of a breach?
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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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Is the CC BY-ND an Open license?
CC BY-ND (Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives) is a fairly restrictive license. It does not allow derivative works.
The Wikipedia article on Creative Commons licenses says that it is not a ...
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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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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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Am I responsible for fixing broken links under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license?
The Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License states
If You Share the Licensed Material (including in modified form), You must:
A. retain the following if it ...
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Can I redistribute CC-BY works in DRM-protected app stores?
CC-BY 4.0 (and the related licenses with "BY" in their names, like CC-BY-SA, CC-BY-NC) includes a clause that says I must not place "additional restrictions" on the work:
No ...
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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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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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