# 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