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Legacy legal code translations and general support issues
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[Feature] Getting Started Section of README.md #1247

Closed jamesbraza closed 2 years ago

jamesbraza commented 2 years ago

Problem

I am trying to make a blog website hosted via GitHub Pages with a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

santisoler/cc-licenses has a LICENSE file available for individuals to copy and add to their respective repos. However, https://github.com/santisoler/cc-licenses/issues/9 is currently open to remove the licenses in favor of this repo. So I am trying to get the LICENSE file from here.

Looking at this repo's current README.md, I have no idea how to get a LICENSE file to add to my GitHub repo. Going to docroot/legalcode, I see nothing but HTML files. I am looking for a plaintext LICENSE file.

Description

Can you add a section to the README.md talking about how to "get started" with this repo, and adding a LICENSE to one's own GitHub repo?

I am a software engineer (no legal background) and get intimidated by legalese. So "beginner friendly" wording is much appreciated :)

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TimidRobot commented 2 years ago

Plain Text License Files

@jamesbraza You can download the plaintext licenses for use in a LICENSE file here:

For example: https://github.com/creativecommons/stateof/blob/main/LICENSE

Also, please note that the CC Licenses are not recommended for software. The CC0 public domain dedication is: Using CC0 for public domain software - Creative Commons.

Background and Context

This repository currently contains the canonical location for the plain text license files. They are in the docroot/legalcode/ directory. In the near future, this repository will be deprecated and replaced by creativecommons/cc-legal-tools-data.

The lack of discoverability / poor user experience is a known issue: Improve support of CC Licensed GitHub repositories · Issue #120 · creativecommons/cc-legal-tools-app.

jamesbraza commented 2 years ago

Thank you for the detailed response @TimidRobot, and good to know about use of CC licenses for software. Cheers!