Creative Commons Licensing

Discussions focus on recommending Creative Commons licenses such as CC0, CC-BY-SA, and others for releasing works into the public domain or allowing open reuse, often comparing them to software licenses like MIT or GPL and addressing their legal implications.

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JoeAltmaier Jul 5, 2016 View on HN

Creative Commons works that way. So its possible.

patrickaljord Jun 26, 2011 View on HN

Please license them as CC SA or similar.

legulere Jan 25, 2016 View on HN

Why not use a CC0 license which is essentially the same?

pabs3 Jan 6, 2020 View on HN

Check out the CC0 license and its justifications:https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc... https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

pbhjpbhj Oct 16, 2020 View on HN

Don't CC-NC licenses count?

vessenes Dec 30, 2025 View on HN

Cool! I'd suggest you slap a CC-BY, CC-BY-SA or CC-BY-NC-SA license on it if you have a second; doesn't take long and lets everyone know your preferences.

_verandaguy Oct 16, 2020 View on HN

I believe CC-BY[0] covers this. Worth noting that CC is more of a generalist license than software, though, so you may not have as fine-grained control as with BSD/GPL/MIT etc. [0] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

toomuchtodo Nov 10, 2015 View on HN

I'd suggest using the following Creative Commons license:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

musicale Jan 7, 2023 View on HN

Looks like it's released under an MIT license?(Also as I understand it, it can be hard or impossible to contribute works to the public domain before automatic copyright terms expire in some countries, and that is the justification for CC0.)

foobarbecue Apr 16, 2021 View on HN

Seems quite clear that the author would encourage that and be glad of it. There's a CC0 license at the bottom.