Creative Commons Licenses

[cosmickitty]

I think this would help out with all the posts asking can I use this for xxxx... sorry if this is already somewhere:

The creative commons website has a nifty feature where you input how you would like your asset used and it pops out your license code.

Sidenote: for a game you can only use:

Creative Commons Attribution
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

the other license types:

Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

do not allow for derivatives of work and therefore cannot be used in games.

The license code it outputs doesn't work on this forum, but it's still fairly easy:

[CC by 3.0]

Code:

[url=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US][img]http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/3.0/88x31.png[/img][/url]

(ASSET NAME) by (WEBSITE) is licensed under a [url=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US]Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License[/url].

[CC by NC 3.0]

Code:

[url=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/][img]http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc/3.0/88x31.png[/img][/url]

(ASSET NAME) by (WEBSITE) is licensed under a
[url=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/]Creative
Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License[/url].

[CC by SA 3.0]

Code:

[url=creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/][img]http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/3.0/88x31.png[/img][/url]

(ASSET NAME) by (WEBSITE) is licensed under a [url=creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/]Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License[/url].

[CC by NC SA 3.0]

Code:

[url=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US][img]http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/88x31.png[/img][/url]

(ASSET NAME) by (WEBSITE) is licensed under a [url=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US]Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License[/url].

I can go into more detail if need be... but I think everything is pretty self explanatory.

[DerVVulfman]

Well, this may not be just for resources, but source code and other material. So... It's a goin' to be stickied to Development Discussion. This is important.

[cosmickitty]

didn't think code went under CC license, thought it kinda had it's own version of it.... I know it can't really work for games there's a seperate license for it.