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Creative Commons Licenses for GitHub Projects

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In this repo you can find easy ways for applying Creative Commons Licenses on Github repositories through Markdown language.

WARNING: You 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 meant for intellectual works only.

The easiest way for finding the right CC License for your project is the Creative Commons website.

Here we present three types of CC Licenses:

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/.

CC Attribution 4.0 International

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

Shield: CC BY 4.0

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

CC BY 4.0

CC Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

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

Shield: CC BY-SA 4.0

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

CC BY-SA 4.0

CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

To add a CC BY-NC-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-NC-SA 4.0][cc-by-nc-sa-shield]][cc-by-nc-sa]

This work is licensed under a
[Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License][cc-by-nc-sa].

[![CC BY-NC-SA 4.0][cc-by-nc-sa-image]][cc-by-nc-sa]

[cc-by-nc-sa]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
[cc-by-nc-sa-image]: https://licensebuttons.net/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/88x31.png
[cc-by-nc-sa-shield]: https://img.shields.io/badge/License-CC%20BY--NC--SA%204.0-lightgrey.svg

Shield: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

CC BY 4.0