Software: free and open source code

Creative Commons recommends and uses free and open source software licenses for software.

To use the Free Software Foundation’s GNU General Public License, see how to use GNU licenses for your own software.

Learn about other free and open source software licenses at these sites:

• Free Software Foundation licenses list
• Open Source Initiative approved licenses

Need a place to develop your software?

See the Wikipedia comparison of free software hosting facilities.

Want to help Creative Commons develop free software?

Check out our developer community. We have lists, a wiki, IRC, code repositories, and lots of challenges just for you!