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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.
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> **WARNING:**
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> You shouldn't use Creative Commons licenses for software.
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> Use Free Software Licenses for that kind of repositories, like GPL, BSD, etc.
> Creative Commons Licenses are ment for intellectual works only.
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The easiest way for finding the right CC License for your project is the [Creative Commons website ](https://creativecommons.org/choose/ ).
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Here we present two types of CC Licenses:
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* [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International ](#cc-attribution-40-international )
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* [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International ](#cc-attribution-sharealike-40-international )
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More information about licenses, and plain-text formatted licenses texts can be found on https://choosealicense.com/.
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If you want to download vectorized version of Creative Commons images and other related stuff, please visit https://creativecommons.org/about/downloads/.
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## CC Attribution 4.0 International
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To add a CC BY License to your project, just add the following to your `README.md` .
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You should also copy the corresponding [license text file ](LICENSE-CC-BY ) and rename it to `LICENSE` .
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```markdown
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Shield: [![CC BY 4.0][cc-by-shield]][cc-by]
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This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License][cc-by].
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[![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
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[cc-by-shield]: https://img.shields.io/badge/License-CC%20BY%204.0-lightgrey.svg
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```
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Shield: [![CC BY 4.0][cc-by-shield]][cc-by]
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This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License][cc-by].
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[![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
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## CC Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
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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 ](LICENSE-CC-BY-SA ) and rename it to `LICENSE` .
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```markdown
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Shield: [![CC BY-SA 4.0][cc-by-sa-shield]][cc-by-sa]
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This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License][cc-by-sa].
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[![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
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```
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Shield: [![CC BY-SA 4.0][cc-by-sa-shield]][cc-by-sa]
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This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License][cc-by-sa].
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[![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