# Creative Commons Licenses for GitHub In this repo you can find easy ways for applying Creative Commons Licenses on Github repositories. **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](https://creativecommons.org/choose/). More information about licenses, and plain-text formatted licenses texts can be found on [https://choosealicense.com/](https://choosealicense.com/). Here we present three types of CC Licenses: * Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International * Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International ## CC Attribution 4.0 International 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 ## CC Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International 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