License Your Work

With a Creative Commons license, you keep your copyright but allow people to copy and distribute your work provided they give you credit — and only on the conditions you specify here. For those new to Creative Commons licensing, we've prepared a list of things to think about. If you want to offer your work with no conditions or you want to certify a work as public domain, choose one of our public domain tools.

Attribution
You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor.

Allow commercial uses of your work?

Allow modifications of your work?

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Jurisdiction of your license Information

Additional Information

The additional fields are optional, but will be embedded in the HTML generated for your license. This allows users of your work to determine how to attribute it or where to go for more information about the work. Information

Tell us the format of your work:
Title of work
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Attribute work to name
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Attribute work to URL
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Source work URL
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More permissions URL
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Embedded Metadata

The information is embedded in a software readable format. This allows search engines to index additional information about your work and allows people coming to the license deed from your page to see information on the deed about how to attribute your work.

More information on Creative Commons metadata is available if you want to find out more.

Source work URL

A work another is derived from.

Title of work

The title of the work you are licensing.

Attribute work to name

The name users of the work should give attribution to. For example, the name of the work's author.

Attribute work to URL

The URL users of the work should link to. For example, the work's page on the author's site.

More permissions URL

A URL where a user can obtain information about clearing rights that are not pre-cleared by your CC license.


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Commercial Use

The licensor permits others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work, including for commercial purposes.

NonCommercial

The licensor permits others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work for non-commercial purposes only.

Allow Derivative Works

The licensor permits others to copy, distribute, display and perform the work, as well as make derivative works based on it.

No Derivative Works

The licensor permits others to copy, distribute and transmit only unaltered copies of the work — not derivative works based on it.

Share Alike

The licensor permits others to distribute derivative works only under the same license or one compatible with the one that governs the licensor's work.

What You Can Do Here

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