Free software foundation or listed as open source by the open source initiative. While software is also governed by law and cc licenses are applicable, the creative commons recommends free and opensource software software licenses instead of creative commons. While software is also governed by law and cc licenses are applicable, the creative commons recommends free and opensource software software. Bassel khartabil was a palestinian syrian open source software developer and has served as project lead and public. On creative commons and open source open source hardware. Via cc licenses, both resources enable a community of educators and learners to contribute to, edit, and improve them, especially practical open source software exploration which invites people to edit the wiki directly. Jon phillips writes san francisco, usa, march 29, 2006 cchost, an open source project that provides webbased infrastructure to support collaboration, sharing, and storage of multimedia. I made this tool knowing how hard it is to find creative commons content on the internet. Creative commons licenses cannot be applied to the hardware itself. Creative commons is a system that allows you to legally use some rights reserved music, movies, images, and other content all for free. The cc technical team writes about what were working on, updates about ccs software projects, engineering related programs and events that. Of course, unicode is more than just emoji characters.
Existing software licenses were designed specifically for use with software and offer a similar set of rights to the creative commons licenses. We work on products that, among other things, make applying cc licenses to content easier, help users find cc licensed content easily, promote and educate users about cc licenses and, and connect the global cc community. A wiki is a knowledge base website on which users collaboratively modify content and structure directly from the web browser. Free software is share alike and open source clearly is not. A new creative commons search tool for creators seeking to discover and reuse free resources with greater ease. Legal considerations for open source software and creative. Open source licensing is different for good reasons that support the collaborative development that makes open source so great. One k12 educator developed this resource under cc by, a k12 educators guide to open source software.
Any type of creative work can be made available in the public domain. The section choosing a license at the civic commons wiki may be useful, and you can learn more about open source licenses from, section 3. Another type of licensing is the creative commons licensing which. Unless otherwise specified, all content is released under a creative commons attributionsharealike 4. Creative commons has built a series of open source tools to assist end users in publishing and use of cclicensed media. Frequently answered questions open source initiative. The creative commons relates to a licensing model for open source software. Today we will cover two categories of licenses one known as open source software licenses that were created specifically for software only and the other known as creative commons licenses which can. A weekly podcast where i ramble about creativity, process, and open source software during my work commute.
Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends. Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Learn ways that holders can license their creative works with creative commons and open source licenses in this article aligned to the ap computer science principles standards. How do i add the creative commons license to software code. Our licenses are currently not compatible with the gpl. Creative commons and open source ap csp article khan. Open access journals are publishing creative commonslicensed research, which promotes access and reuse of scientific and scholarly research. Creative commons recommends and uses free and open source software licenses for software. The website is maintained thanks to the support from the osi sponsors and is kindly hosted. It is used by many open hardware developers and covers many but not all the needs of that.
Why would i not want to license my software under a creative commons. For software, programmers can apply an open source license. Creative commons licensing helps people share work and access. Creative commons has been building free software for over a decade to support our mission of maximizing digital creativity, sharing, and. Open source at cc creative commons has been building free software for over a decade to support our mission of maximizing digital creativity, sharing, and innovation. Rating is available when the video has been rented. Creative commons has recommendations on their faq page about open. Explore these featured creative commons licensed resources below from literary works, to videos, photos, audio, open education, scientific research and more.
Ahmad bilal was one of those contributors and we are grateful for his work on this project. Creative commons uses the copyleft symbol for sharealike to help make this clear to legally naive users. Why shouldnt creative commons licenses be used for software. Like the free software and opensource movements, our ends are cooperative.
Genderinclusive software wiki products, open source, and beyond by prof margaret burnett and dr anita sarma. Oer commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Creative commons releases open source software cchost. Suppose i was finishing up an open source software. However, where open source licenses were ideal for software applications, creative commons was intended to work for other types of creative works, including text, images, audio and video. Learn about the creative commons licence and why its advisable not to use it on opensource software. Why would i not want to license my software under a creative commons license. A search tool used to find creative commons music, video, and pictures. In a typical wiki, text is written using a simplified markup language and often. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum. Open source software licenses can be also used for nonsoftware works and are often the best choice, especially when the works in question can be edited and versioned as source e. This goround we wind ourselves down the welltrodden and completely absurd path of people who believe that theres a single monolithic computer.
Creative commons has been building free software for over a decade to support our mission of maximizing digital creativity, sharing, and innovation. In celebration of creative commons tenth anniversary, members of ccs european affiliate network have put together an awesome mixtape of their 20 favorite creative commonslicensed songs by artists in. And while we are excited to use the fun new emoji, one new character is potentially useful. The open source initiative osi provides guidelines and licensing stating the usage rights associated with the software. The open source initiative osi, open source definition osd and osi approved open source licenses are internationally recognized, and affirmed by the worlds leading open source software projects and. I created this video with the youtube video editor. Many musicians choose to release their songs under creative commons licenses, which give you the legal right to do things like use their music in your videos. Learn about other free and open source software licenses at these sites.
What about the creative commons cc0 cc zero public domain dedication. The worrying thing is that if the dilution of term open source continues in the hardware space, it will have a detrimental impact on open source software. For more tools, including some developed by third parties, see category. The freeculture movement takes the ideals of the free and opensource software movement and extends them from the field of software to all cultural and creative works.
To use the free software foundations gnu general public license, see how to use gnu licenses for your own software. To use the free software foundations gnu general public. Jess weichler jess weichler is a digital artist using open source software and hardware to create works digitally and in the physical world at. Introducing the updated creative commons wordpress plugin. This file is licensed under the creative commons attributionshare alike 4. Both of these programs aim to support students and early career professionals as they venture into open source software development. This is answered by creative commons themselves in their faq unlike softwarespecific licenses, cc. The creative commons licenses themselves illustrate this point as they were created at a time when there were already a variety of freeopensource software licences available that could, in theory, have. I needed to license it under an open source license. To use the free software foundations gnu general public license, see how to use gnu licenses for your. The open source software licences known as the gnu general public license gpl, the gnu lesser general public license lgpl and the bsd license also exist in a creative commonswrapped form. Pages in category opensource the following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total.
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