http://forum.creativecommons.org/ CC Forum Tag: software - Recent Posts en Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:09:50 +0000 http://forum.creativecommons.org/topic/174#post-450 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:07:08 +0000 kerrybriana 450@http://forum.creativecommons.org/ <p>Hi Guise............<br /> Its a really nice comment in this forum site.<br /> Thanks for this information.</p> <p><a href="http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=2015750">Acai Force Max</a> </p> http://forum.creativecommons.org/topic/174#post-447 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:21:54 +0000 Photo Lighting 447@http://forum.creativecommons.org/ <p>Well, under the Share Alike license, if you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. Hope this helps. </p> http://forum.creativecommons.org/topic/174#post-342 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:16:18 +0000 sympodius 342@http://forum.creativecommons.org/ <p>I believe that the 'share alike' part of a license is more to do with remixing. If you are not editing, re-cutting or changing the music in any way (just playing it as background music) and the game does not directly sync to it, I think this is allowed. It's a tricky area though.</p> <p>To be safe, you should really just contact the creators of the music and ask them if they mind. It sounds like you are using the music in the spirit of the license, so they'll probably say that they don't mind. </p> http://forum.creativecommons.org/topic/174#post-339 Thu, 28 May 2009 11:19:33 +0000 durga2112 339@http://forum.creativecommons.org/ <p>I am interested in using music and artwork from a Creative Commons-licensed album in a video game. The exact license on the album is Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike. The game will be free to download and will have a credits screen, so the Attribution and Noncommercial elements should be easy to cover. However, given the way the Share Alike element works, and the fact that Creative Commons licenses are not recommended for software, will this even be possible to do? </p> http://forum.creativecommons.org/topic/101#post-224 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:11:16 +0000 ahevans 224@http://forum.creativecommons.org/ <p>hi, did you ever find an answer to this question? </p> http://forum.creativecommons.org/topic/101#post-220 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:34:46 +0000 jpPenelton 220@http://forum.creativecommons.org/ <p>Hello! Let me apologize in advance for 1) not knowing anything about CC or copyrights in general, and 2) asking a question relating to software.</p> <p>I am making a computer card game (which I want to sell copies of,) and I would like to use playing card images that I downloaded. The images have a by-sa license, so I'm pretty sure I can use them commercially (with attribution, of course.)</p> <p>My concern is that the share alike license requires derivative works to also carry a CC license. Would my game be considered a derivative work? If so, what would be an appropriate commercial use?</p> <p>Or does "derivative work" just mean creating my own deck of cards based off the images I downloaded? </p> http://forum.creativecommons.org/topic/29#post-62 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:56:55 +0000 mlinksva 62@http://forum.creativecommons.org/ <p>I'll guess from the above that you want an open source license that requires attribution.</p> <p>Maybe you're looking for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Public_Attribution_License" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Public_Attribution_License</a> </p> http://forum.creativecommons.org/topic/29#post-61 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:57:34 +0000 The User 61@http://forum.creativecommons.org/ <p>Hi,<br /> I am searching for an Open Souce-License like this:<br /> <strong>(C) (!) (by) (src)</strong> and maybe ($).<br /> Is there any license like this? I could not find one.</p> <p>Thank u for ur support!<br /> The User </p> http://forum.creativecommons.org/topic/13#post-30 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:48:45 +0000 cygnusx 30@http://forum.creativecommons.org/ <p>Ok,thank you for helping me. </p> http://forum.creativecommons.org/topic/13#post-29 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:08:52 +0000 mlinksva 29@http://forum.creativecommons.org/ <p>CC licenses are not for software, as it says in <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#Can_I_use_a_Creative_Commons_license_for_software.3F" rel="nofollow">http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#Can_I_use_a_Creative_Commons_license_for_software.3F</a></p> <p>If you don't want to use a real open source software license, you have at least three options:</p> <p>* Don't release your software<br /> * Release your software under default "all rights reserved" copyright<br /> * Release under a proprietary license such as the Microsoft Reference Source License, see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_source#Proprietary_Licenses" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_source#Proprietary_Licenses</a> (or make up your own proprietary license) </p> http://forum.creativecommons.org/topic/13#post-28 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:18:43 +0000 cygnusx 28@http://forum.creativecommons.org/ <p>So,can i use CC license or not?I mean that "if you did use a CC license for software it would not make it open source." sounds litle vague.I've readed these things from the link you gave before,and obviously my program is not open source according to that "definition"... </p> http://forum.creativecommons.org/topic/13#post-26 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:00:42 +0000 mlinksva 26@http://forum.creativecommons.org/ <p>There is no open source license that does what you want.</p> <p>You might want to read about what open source means at <a href="http://opensource.org/docs/osd" rel="nofollow">http://opensource.org/docs/osd</a></p> <p>We do not recommend using CC licenses for software, but if you did use a CC license for software it would not make it open source. </p> http://forum.creativecommons.org/topic/13#post-25 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:52:33 +0000 cygnusx 25@http://forum.creativecommons.org/ <p>Let's say i'm writing open source application and want to restrict other people to distribute the application if they have made some changes to it.I mean i want to allow people to make changes but only for their own use.I've searched for such license but didn't find any.Like i said i don't want to restrict further distribution of my application,i only want to restrict distribution if the user that use it make some changes,i mean adding some features that he/she needs,remove features or change already existing features...Here is something taken from this site..."You can choose the GNU GPL or LGPL wrapped with a Creative Commons deed and metadata".I cannot use such licenses because they allow other people to make changes to the software and distribute it with these changes.I don't want that.So,if i'm not able to protect my work then i'm forced to make my program closed-source,something that i really don't want to do.Can i use some kind of CC license for my needs? </p>