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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CC BY-SA 4.0: contribution and distribution clarification
What "distribute" and "contributions" mean exactly for the CC BY-SA 4.0 license?
Let’s take a real example for the sake of illustration: I intend to use the data provided by an online dictionary ...
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Is CC BY-SA sufficient as a license for a Project logo?
I am the leader of an organization that works on open-source software. I'm slightly unsure of how to license our organization logo, however, and I want our licensing guidelines to be clear. Right now, ...
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Does using a CC-BY-SA image mean you have to license the whole work under CC-BY-SA?
Let's say I want to use some images from Wikimedia Commons which are licensed CC-BY-SA.
I have a few questions about usage, though:
If I use one on my website, will I have to license the whole ...
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Marking a Work with a Creative Commons license
I want to publish my document made with TeX under a Creative Commons license. Would a license notice such as "The document © 2025 by the author is licensed under a CC license." in the ...
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Can I sell CC0 licensed work under a different license?
My understanding was that CC0 license - https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.en removes all restrictions and I could do anything with such work.
But while reading it I noticed ...
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Deleting hyperlinks in Creative Commons documentation
There is a package - the license.md file says that all the documentation in the "doc" directory of that package is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Everything outside that directory is ...
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Can I use CIE spectra in commercial code without sharing the code?
The CIE (international commission on illumination) has a lot of spectra defined in its ISO standards. They publish them on their website (https://cie.co.at/data-tables) with a CC BY-SA 4.0 license (...
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In the case of CC-BY material, what should the license look like for a translation into another language?
We are translating a work of text that is licensed CC-BY, let's say CC-BY 4.0. The short version of the original attribution might be "CC-BY Smith and Jones".
We would like to license the ...
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Why are there no no-attribution licenses other than "public domain"?
I regularly have the issue that I want to license some work in a way that it is free to use and modify, but copies and derivative works have to have the same or a compatible license. Sometimes I want ...
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What does a CC BY-NC-SA license imply for neural network weights?
What uses does the CC BY-NC-SA license prohibit in the case of neural network weights?
The license was not written with neural networks in mind, and the non-commercial use is defined with respect to ...
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Can I license artwork that has a mixture of CC BY-SA, public domain, CC0, Pexels licensed images under CC BY-SA?
I have created some artwork that uses images mostly licensed under variations of CC BY-SA. There are also some public domain, CC0, and rarely images from Pexels/similar "free to use" sites. ...
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If I rewrite someone's Scratch game in Python, am I required to disclose the source code? Can I sell it?
The license for all projects shared at the Scratch Website is the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 2.0. I would have to credit the author and share under the same license, but it is ...
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Is a CC licence an appropriate licence for a programming language description?
I am a bit unsure but would expect, that in my case a CC BY-NC would be the thing I want.
What I am creating is an educative programming language for "offline" use, a learning game without a ...
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Can I upgrade all CC 3.0 licenses to 4.0 counterparts when creating a joint dataset?
I am planning on creating a dataset which contains data with different licenses. I decided to create differently-licensed versions of my dataset that contain different combinations of data from ...
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Extent of adapted material "contagion" in Wikipedia style CC BY-SA licenses
I have a dataset and website which is partially derived from Wikipedia text. This seems to be licenced CC BY-SA. (This is merged with other free data: OGL, ODbL, etc).
My dataset is CC BY-SA ...