In this repo you can find easy ways for applying Creative Commons Licenses on Github repositories through Markdown language.
WARNING: Your shouldn't use Creative Commons licenses for software. Use Free Software Licenses for that kind of repositories, like GPL, BSD, etc. Creative Commons Licenses are ment for intellectual works only.
The easiest way for finding the right CC License for your project is the Creative Commons website.
Here we present two types of CC Licenses:
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
More information about licenses, and plain-text formatted licenses texts can be found on https://choosealicense.com/.
If you want to download vectorized version of Creative Commons images and other related stuff, please visit https://creativecommons.org/about/downloads/.
To add a CC BY License to your project, just add the following to your README.md
.
You should also copy the corresponding
license text file
and rename it to LICENSE
.
Shield: [![CC BY 4.0][cc-by-shield]][cc-by]
This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
License][cc-by].
[![CC BY 4.0][cc-by-image]][cc-by]
[cc-by]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
[cc-by-image]: https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png
[cc-by-shield]: https://img.shields.io/badge/License-CC%20BY%204.0-lightgrey.svg
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
To add a CC BY-SA License to your project, just add the following to your README.md
.
You should also copy the corresponding
license text file
and rename it to LICENSE
.
Shield: [![CC BY-SA 4.0][cc-by-sa-shield]][cc-by-sa]
This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
International License][cc-by-sa].
[![CC BY-SA 4.0][cc-by-sa-image]][cc-by-sa]
[cc-by-sa]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
[cc-by-sa-image]: https://licensebuttons.net/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.png
[cc-by-sa-shield]: https://img.shields.io/badge/License-CC%20BY--SA%204.0-lightgrey.svg
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.