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adding Creative Commons licences to your physical documents

When you are marking a physical document such as printed page from a text document, or hand written material, you need to physically write a notice of the licence.

 

choose a licence step 2: choose a licence

Before you can add the source code to your website you first need to choose a licence. The licence chooser provides an easy to use interface for choosing a licence. Fill in the questions and the appropriate licence is automatically generated.

launch launch licence chooser

 

step 3: mark the work

Give notice of the licence, along with your copyright notice, on each item you wish the licence to apply to. For example:

© John Citizen 2005
this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence
full terms at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0

 

The URL listed points potential users of your work to the Commons Deed applicable to your licence.
 

 

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