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 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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Meaning of Attribution in CC BY 3.0 for a JavaScript library
I come across a JavaScript library which is licensed under the CC BY 3.0 (US) license.
The only restrictions of the license is
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the ...
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Combining software and image licensing in the same repository
I have a project under Apache license on GitHub. I want to add some non-text stuff into repository (logo).
Can I use Apache license for an image?
If not, what CC license is most 'aligned' with Apache ...
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Using CC Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported image in a book
I would like to use an image in the cover page of a paid book.
The image is first published in Wikimedia and it is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
I ...
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If I use a CC-BY-SA artwork as part of my book cover art, do I need to share my entire book cover art under a similar license?
I'm confused about the share alike part of the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license which states:
share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must ...
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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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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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Why is YouTube using 3.0 version of CC BY?
Figuring out how YouTube uses Creative Commons was hard.
When uploading a video on YouTube, all you see as an option is "Creative Commons Attribution" (which could be any CC license).
When seeing a ...
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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 it OK to put license note that uses "this code/file/work" into a separate file?
MPL & CC-BY-SA both allow putting only a small license statement to place I deem fit. But both of them use "this":
This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public License
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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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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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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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Copyleft/share-alike non-attribution licenses?
Is there any existing license can a person can use to distribute a document that allows reuse, derivative works, and free distribution, under the condition of it being licensed under the same or a ...
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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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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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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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Is CC-BY-SA 3.0 compatible with Apache 2.0?
Creative Commons explicitly states that GPL3 is compatible with CC-BY-SA 3.0. However, there is no information on its compatibility with Apache 2.0. Currently, I am hosting Apache licensed content on ...
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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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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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Does Creative Commons allow for the exclusion of stock images that are included in a program?
I've just finished creating a program and I want to license it under Creative Commons - Share-A-Like license. It's my first creative commons licensed software. However, I did purchase two images for ...
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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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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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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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How to require a "pingback" when my CC-licensed material is used?
I have a graduation project based on an open source system. As my university is more leaned towards the market instead of the academia, I wanted to know who else (if ever) is going to take my project ...
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Writing a book, for commercial purposes, about a derivative work, of my own doing, of a CC BY-NC-SA project
I am working on a port of a codebase (Java) to another language (Python), with some modifications. The Java codebase is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA. Understandably, the Python codebase will also be CC ...
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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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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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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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Indirect benefit using CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licensed content
Lets say I have a web page where I use CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licensed video and use it for non-commercial purposes. Particularly, I do not charge for it.
And in the same webpage I have other video content ...
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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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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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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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Could I license my static website under Creative Commons?
I am making a static website with HTML, CSS, minimal JS, images, and lots of research content for a school project.
I read that Creative Commons licenses are not meant for software source code, but ...
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Relation between the creative commons license and the patent process
I have an algorithm. I'd like to publish this in an open access journal under the creative commons license. But I'm also considering a patent. How do these processes sit together? Does publishing in ...
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Can I host CC BY-NC-ND photos along side commercial stock photos?
If I had a stock photo site that contained a mix of free Creative Commons licensed photos and commercial stock photos (where I make a commission), would I be allowed to include photos licensed under ...
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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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What exactly does "attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor" mean in case of CC-BY-SA
In case I'm about to use an image from Wikimedia Commons (like https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sa-warthog.jpg for example), what exactly does
attribute the work in the manner specified by ...
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How to properly give attribution for an email template?
I'd like to use an email template licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, specifically MailChimp's Email Blueprints.
The license states that attribution must be ...
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Giving attribution to tutorial
If I want to use the code from this Point Cloud tutorial (or similar) in a commercial program, do I have to attribute to the author? Although PCL is licensed with the BSD license (so no problem), the ...
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Icons attribution from various sources
I have a question regarding the attribution of icons for the PC application (Title, Author, Source and License).
I have icons from different authors and of course also with different licenses - CC BY ...
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Can I build a paid API service that directly sells the output of a library with a ShareALike license?
I'm looking at potentially building an API-as-a-service around Conceptnet Numberbatch, which has the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Basically, just an API that would provide ...
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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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What if I publish a paper under the Creative Commons license and still patent the work it refers to?
I've just submitted a paper to an open access journal which operates with the Creative Commons license. Details here:
http://www.lmcs-online.org/ojs/copyright.php
The subject of the paper is an ...
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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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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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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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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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