Choose a Creative Commons License for Your Project
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As you are completing your projects, keep in mind that you are developing them in public-facing webspace, and they represent a resource on your topic and for people learning to code within and beyond our coding community at Pitt. We hope you are proud of the projects that you are producing, and that you prepare them with a longer-range audience in mind. We also ask that each project team take some time to think how to license your work as a public-facing resource, by selecting a Creative Commons License to display on your project website.
Creative Commons licenses are designed to be human-readable and machine-readable copyright licenses widely used in the coding community for public-facing work because they're more adaptable than traditional copyright. Traditional copyright typically expresses sole proprietorship and "all rights reserved" that would prevent anyone from re-using or remixing your work. That's not usually what we want for code-based digital projects. In our coding communities, we usually want to encourage people to view and re-purpose our source code, though we usually also want to be cited and acknowledged, and we might want to think about whether it's appropriate for others to reuse the work in a way that commercializes it. There are several different levels of licensing available, and regardless of the one you choose, the presence of a license will demonstrate your long-range commitment to your work. It's a mark of care and professionalism, so we want all of you to choose one. Creative Commons provides:
- a helpful overview with examples of projects using the different kinds of licenses they offer
- a guided process to select the license that's right for your project, and (when you complete that)
- code blocks for display of your license on your website.
Selecting a Creative Commons license is something best done with your project team, and we'd like to see all project sites displaying their Creative Commons License by the time you present on Friday 4/17. Where do these licenses go on websites? Consider putting the little license logo in a footer near a link to your GitHub repo (as for example Teen Titans has done).
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