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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 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/).
Here we present two types of CC Licenses:
* [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International](#cc-attribution-40-international)
* [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](#cc-attribution-sharealike-40-international)
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](LICENSE-CC-BY) and rename it to `LICENSE`.
```markdown
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][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
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`.
```markdown
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][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