https://github.com/idleberg/Creative-Commons-Markdown

Markdown-formatted Creative Commons licenses
https://github.com/idleberg/Creative-Commons-Markdown

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Markdown-formatted Creative Commons licenses

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/idleberg/Creative-Commons-Markdown
• Owner: idleberg
• License: other
• Created: 2014-01-09T19:41:09.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-10-28T17:18:19.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-23T04:31:15.969Z (6 months ago)
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• Size: 290 KB
• Stars: 535
• Watchers: 19
• Forks: 650
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: readme.markdown
  • License: LICENSE

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# Creative Commons Markdown

[![npm](https://flat.badgen.net/npm/license/cc-md)](https://www.npmjs.org/package/cc-md)

[![npm](https://flat.badgen.net/npm/v/cc-md)](https://www.npmjs.org/package/cc-md)

[![CI](https://img.shields.io/github/actions/workflow/status/idleberg/Creative-Commons-Markdown/default.yml?style=flat-square)](https://github.com/idleberg/Creative-Commons-Markdown/actions)

On November 25th, 2013, [Creative Commons](http://creativecommons.org/) announced their next generation licenses: [Creative Commons 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/40768). By default, these are available as [HTML](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/) or [plaintext](http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/41127). This project adds [Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/)-formatted licenses to that list, while aiming for best [compatibility on GitHub](https://github.github.com/gfm/).

## Licenses

* `BY` – [Attribution](https://github.com/idleberg/Creative-Commons-Markdown/blob/master/4.0/by.markdown)

* `BY-NC` – [Attribution-NonCommercial](https://github.com/idleberg/Creative-Commons-Markdown/blob/master/4.0/by-nc.markdown)

* `BY-NC-ND` – [Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives](https://github.com/idleberg/Creative-Commons-Markdown/blob/master/4.0/by-nc-nd.markdown)

* `BY-NC-SA` – [Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike](https://github.com/idleberg/Creative-Commons-Markdown/blob/master/4.0/by-nc-sa.markdown)

* `BY-ND` – [Attribution-NoDerivatives](https://github.com/idleberg/Creative-Commons-Markdown/blob/master/4.0/by-nd.markdown)

* `BY-SA` – [Attribution-ShareAlike](https://github.com/idleberg/Creative-Commons-Markdown/blob/master/4.0/by-sa.markdown)

* `CC0` – [CC0](https://github.com/idleberg/Creative-Commons-Markdown/blob/master/4.0/zero.markdown)

## File extension

There's a plethora of Markdown file extensions, but I have decided to go with `markdown`. Read why:

> *"We no longer live in a 8.3 world, so we should be using the most descriptive file extensions. It’s sad that all our operating systems rely on this stupid convention instead of the better creator code or a metadata model, but great that they now support longer file extensions."*  

>

> – Hilton Lipschitz ([via](http://hiltmon.com/blog/2012/03/07/the-markdown-file-extension/))

> *"…the only file extension I would endorse is “.markdown”, for the same reason offered by Hilton Lipschitz"*

>

> – John Gruber, creator of Markdown ([via](http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/01/08/markdown-extension))

## Usage

There are other ways to get the licenses than downloading the [latest release](https://github.com/idleberg/Creative-Commons-Markdown/releases/latest) in your browser:

```bash

# Use git

$ git clone https://github.com/idleberg/Creative-Commons-Markdown cc-md

# npm

$ npm install cc-md

```

## Contribute

If you notice any mistakes in content or formatting, please send a pull request with your correction.