These files contain the terms and conditions for the project, and provide attribution to the original developers. You can subscribe via rssatom or email and browse other blogs to read. Other agreements are more specific to a particular user. Here are some good and not so good examples of attribution. Old posts would show only cc bysa unless perhaps their author edits them and ticks a box saying update to the new seattribution license. Preferably, you want a comment with the name and version of a wellknown license in the. A license, like a piece of code, have very welldefined meanings and cannot in any way be considered subjective and argumentative. D if you distribute any portion of the software in source code form, you may do so only under this license by including a complete copy of this license with your distribution. This license requires anyone who uses the ed work to provide appropriate credit and indicate what, if any, changes were made. Suominen for licensing his privaria secure networking software see.
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 licenses. When a copyleft license is widely used, it not only protects essential freedoms for all users, it fosters the spread of those freedoms. One of the new rule class constructor parameters, licenses, can be used to specify one or more license type identifier strings some thirdparty software is licensed under more than. It is a software license which needs to be purchased one time and can be used indefinitely. In the event of resale, the music must be synchronized with another media.
You still need to keep the license and notice files in the repository, if there were any in your copy of the project. Choose a licence for your work learn about the earlier versions of ccs licences. These are all questions that any proper software license answers. What are the attribution requirements of the agpl license. Determining which license will work best for you can require some thought, and depends not only on specific attributes of your software, but also on your particular goals. Free license with attribution this license allows you to use for free any of flaticons contents for your projects as long as they are attributed to their author in the definitive project. Understanding, licensing and attribution for photos. Attribution you must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. Reading the license, though, i dont see anything claiming that attribution to the original author has to be anywhere, so where are they taking that from. Licensed works, modifications, and larger works may be distributed under different terms and without source code. The phet interactive simulations project at the university of colorado phet distributes these simulations under the creative commons attribution 3. Opensource software is available for virtually any application you could think of. I followed this advice, and also added an authors file giving attribution to authors who had written code that wound up in the final source files.
Due to the larger upfront investments involved such licenses usually require a capital expenditure. Software licenses are considered a capital expenditure or an expense depending upon the type of license they are. By exercising the licensed rights defined below, you accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this creative commons attribution 4. Microsoft public license mspl explained in plain english. This is not offtopic licensing issues are directly related to software development. Creative commons license symbol for attribution attribution, in law, is acknowledgement as credit to the holder or author of a work. May 30, 2012 there is no such commonly used open source license. Dec 14, 2015 if the attribution includes a creative commons license requirement, you should link to that license too each license has its own url. These files are licensed under a creative commons attribution sharealike license, which allows for both personal and commercial derivative works, as long as they credit arduino and release their designs under the same license. It sounds like a joke license, but its approved as gplcompatible by the fsf.
By placing a link with the text designed by from flaticon in a visible spot, so s authorship is noticeable. Most designers use opensource software or code on a regular basis wordpress, drupal and many. Many developers support software freedom, and demonstrate this support using one of the family of gpl licenses gpl2. This license is often compared to copyleft free and open source software licenses. While both foss and proprietary licenses generally require attribution and include standard protections such as disclaimers of warranty, they differ in key aspects both. Creative commons statement of intent for attribution sharealike licenses. In exchange, just give html5 up credit for the design and tell your friends about it. This license will therefore apply, along with any applicable section 7 additional terms, to the whole of the work, and all its parts, regardless of how they are packaged.
This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they cant change in any way or use them commercially. Feb 24, 2020 the only way to actually make your code open source and freely available is to attach a license to it. What is a free software license that requires attribution for. You can do whatever you want with the original work, for commercial or noncommercial purposes, as long as you attribute the original creator. The final layer of the license design recognizes that software, from search engines to. Attribution only this one is likely the most straightforward of all the creative commons licenses because its the one they all build from. You can use cclicensed materials as long as you follow the license conditions. Everything you wanted to know about open source attribution. The executable versions of all simulations by phet interactive simulations, university of colorado the. For the avoidance of doubt, you may only use the credit required by this section for the purpose of attribution in the manner set out above and, by exercising your rights under this license, you may not implicitly or explicitly assert or imply any connection with, sponsorship or endorsement by the original author, licensor andor attribution. Attributionsharealike cc bysa this license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. The license uses the term software which is defined as this.
Our licenses grant only permissions under and certain other rights that a licensor has authority to grant. The author, who is not an attorney, places this license template into the public domain along with a complete disclaimer of any warranty or responsibility for its content or legal efficacy. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Posts edited by multiple authors would show only the compatible licenses. Publishing a web page with attribution information. For media such as offline materials, video, audio, and images, consider. Open source licenses are licenses that comply with the open source definition in brief, they allow software to be freely used, modified, and shared. Permission is granted hereby, to copy, share, and modify. A cc license is used when an author wants to give other people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that they the author have created. Licensing agreements can be general and apply to all users, like an eula.
Open source licenses grant permission for anybody to use, modify, and share licensed software for any purpose, subject to conditions preserving the provenance and openness of the software. The author, who is not an attorney, places this license template into the public domain along with a complete disclaimer of. Frequently used for media assets and educational materials. No additional restrictions you may not apply legal terms or technological measures. Be sure to check out pixelarity, my latest and greatest side project that offers attributionfree.
A license is an agreement between a developer and user on how a software product can be used. Bsd with attribution software package data exchange spdx. You may copy, distribute and modify the software as long as you track. Apr 11, 2019 considering the fact that todays software products are built with 60%80% of open source code, an attribution report covering all of their open source components can be a hefty mission. If the licensors permission is not necessary for any reasonfor example, because of any applicable exception or limitation to then that use is not regulated by the license. Outside the foss licensing use case for software there are several usage examples to utilize cc licenses to specify a freeware license model. There are some licenses which have provisions in them that limit commercial use out there, but they are not recognized by the open source initiativ. Even if you find the right image, you have to be sure youve understood the licensing and attribution, or you could be breaking law. C if you distribute any portion of the software, you must retain all, patent, trademark, and attribution notices that are present in the software.
If a work is under, there is a long tradition of the author requiring attribution while directly quoting portions of work created by that author. Considering the fact that todays software products are built with 60%80% of open source code, an attribution report covering all of their open source components can be a hefty mission. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. In exchange for the fee the customer owes under payment, the company grants the customer a license, under all the s and any patent rights the company can license during the term of this agreement, to use font awesome pro as described in what the customer may do, what creators may do, and what creators may not do. On this site, the requirement for attribution applies only to the. Oaspa provides here a basic guide to practices in licensing and attribution in open access publishing, with the aim of improving consistency, making key best practice recommendations, and communicating how and why particular licensing and attribution.
Cc provides an author flexibility for example, they might choose to allow only noncommercial uses of. If you see cc by only, this is an attribution only license, which is the least restrictive of the cc licenses. Creative commons licenses explained in plain english sara f. The same rules apply, except that all derivative work must be licensed the same way. The apache license is an open source software license released by the apache software foundation asf. Does the mit license require attribution in a binary only. What are the odds of a court case over your project. Website software, applications, mobile, multimedia printed and digital media magazines, newspapers, books, cards, labels, cd, television, video, email. All of the site templates i create for html5 up are licensed under the creative commons attribution 3. What is a free software license that requires attribution. In the olden days, compiling an open source attribution report used to be quite the paper chase for a. For example, take a look at apache commons lang yes, i know it doesnt use the mit license, its just a really simple example for this practice, which holds for various licenses.
And no, licensing questions belong here, not programmers. In the olden days, compiling an open source attribution report used to be quite the paper chase for a number of reasons. This is a great video that describes the idea behind science commons, that also gives a great illustration of how to properly attribute creative commons works in video click on the link to jump right to the attribution section for an example of proper cc attribution. It lets people do anything with your code with proper attribution and without warranty emphasis mine. Only use the licenses parameter when a specific build rule has a license type different from the build file default specified for the entire file by licenses. Mit license expat explained in plain english tldrlegal. Its a popular and widely deployed license backed by a strong community. If you are in the business of selling projects such as corporate videos, websites or messages on hold to several clients you must buy a license for each of them or contact us to negotiate a multiple client license. A quick guide to software licensing for the scientist. Creative commons is a notforprofit organization that has created and serves as a steward for a suite of licenses that enable creators to legally grant certain freedoms to the public and to clearly signal those freedoms to humans and machines. A guide to choosing an open source license for your work. The only difference between the terms described above and the previous proposal is the removal of the requirement to add attribution only upon request of the holder or stack exchange on behalf of the holder. Closest to traditional, this is the most restrictive creative commons license and allows others only to redistribute your work noncommercially so long as it remains unchanged and you are given credit in the way you request. But applying it to software seems less straightforward.
Basically, you can do whatever you want as long as you include the original and license notice in any copy of the software source. You can meet attribution requirements pretty easily by just not deleting the notices and licenses in a package and noting that you have that package in. They want others to be able to build on and share their code. This license lets others distribute, remix, adapt, and build. The following licenses are sorted by the number of conditions, from most gnu agplv3 to none unlicense. The opensource community is vibrant because of this. But i have to make this decision on a regular basis. Your choice of a license agreement for software application depends on on what you wish to grant to a user. A short guide to open source licenses smashing magazine. Nov 07, 2017 attributionsharealike cc bysa this license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.
Fair use sometimes referred to as fair dealing, this relates to using an image in such a way to illustrate a point. Sep 19, 2016 oaspa provides here a basic guide to practices in licensing and attribution in open access publishing, with the aim of improving consistency, making key best practice recommendations, and communicating how and why particular licensing and attribution policies and standards are preferred. You could just add a bit to the license requesting attribution, but im no lawyer so i dont know if that would fly in court. The majority of the android platform and documentation is licensed under the apache. Attribution is a concept i associate with content writing, photography, music rather than software.
Attribution, no derivatives this license is kind of the opposite of what you can do with the attribution only license. The terms of a license are outlined in a document called a license or licensing agreement. The customer agrees to keep the customers web store access credentials confidential, and to ensure that only the customer accesses the web store with the customers credentials. Creative commons licenses explained in plain english. I put the information from their license files and a short blurb on their contribution there. Reasonable attribution is now required by end users of stack overflow and stack exchange. The most common license for open access scientific publications.
The apache license allows you to freely use, modify, and distribute any apache licensed product. Best practices for creative commons attributions how to. The mit license, line by line171 words every programmer should understand. The cc attribution license can be extended to cc attribution sharealike. This license is the most restrictive of the six licenses, only allowing others to download your. All previous licence versions remain actively in use, but when licensing a new work, we recommend version 4. Attribution assurance license open source initiative.
For example, the creative commons attribution by license allows one to share and remix create derivative works, even for commercial use, so long as attribution is given. The contents of the notice file are for informational purposes only and do not modify the license. You may add your own attribution notices within derivative works that you distribute, alongside or as an addendum to the notice text from the work, provided that such additional attribution notices cannot be construed as modifying the license. Best open source license for those wanting attribution. This creative commons license is very similar to the regular attribution license, but. Nearly all open source licenses require some amount of attribution.
Various licenses and comments about them gnu project free software foundation fsf. Premium license no attribution if you are a premium user because you have paid for a subscription the license does not require any attribution where you can use flaticon contents. I recommend all software be licensed under the poetic license. This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. Title, author, license written into credits at the end of the film. Permits almost any use subject to providing credit and license notice. You have to give credit, or used in the creative commons license appropriate credit, but you cant change the work in any way.
About this license attribution license creative commons license. The customer agrees to keep license keys for font awesome pro confidential, and to ensure that the customers employees, contractors, creators, and other personnel keep them confidential, as well. This only allows people to download and share your work for no commercial gain. D if you distribute any portion of the software, you must retain all, patent, trademark, and attribution notices that are present in the software. The mit license is the most popular opensource software license. Many developers and designers want to release their work into the world as opensource projects. Its required by all the creative commons licenses except cc0, which is not technically a license. If you want to learn how to mark your own material with a cc license go here. As stated above, best practices for attribution apply as reasonable to the medium youre working with.
Or more accurately, my policy on this is that i act as if there is a requirement. The eula is a legal agreement between the two parties and is legally actionable if. Oss attribution obligations the free dictionary defines attribution as the act of attributing, especially the act of establishing a particular person as the creator of a work of art. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials. While most software apps only use the enduser license agreement eula, there are open source licenses that give users more discretion on how they use a softwares code. Microsoft reciprocal license msrl open source initiative. A license is applicable to one person or company only.
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