creativecommons.org

Website parent project (When we share, everyone wins - Creative Commons), legalcode and translations, and GitHub Issues for public help and support

Overview

This repository is currently for:

1. Public help and support Issues
2. Legalcode and translations
3. Installation of the website (including Styles and other Includes)
4. License Engine (ccEngine) Setup

Code of Conduct

CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md:

The Creative Commons team is committed to fostering a welcoming community. This project and all other Creative Commons open source projects are governed by our Code of Conduct. Please report unacceptable behavior to [email protected] per our reporting guidelines.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Issues

This repository's Issues is also the primary location for public help and support.

Legalcode and Translations

Relevant directories:

• docroot/legalcode: legalcode and translations "source" files
• tools: tools to assist with managing the translations

Also see:

• Legal Code Translation Policy - CC Public Wiki: Documents Legal/Translation process and policy
• Legal Tools Translation - CC Public Wiki: Translation status for 4.0 and CC0 licenses

English Licenses

Our public copyright licenses incorporate a unique and innovative "three-layer" design:

1. Legal code: the traditional legal tool that most lawyers know and love
2. Human Readable Deed: a format that normal people can read... a handy reference for licensors and licensees
3. Machine Readable RDF: recognizes that software, from search engines to office productivity to music editing, plays an enormous role in the creation, copying, discovery, and distribution of works (Three “Layers” Of Licenses - About The Licenses - Creative Commons)

Installation

Child Repositories

In addition to this one, the following child repositories are also used:

• License Engine (chooser, deeds, legalcode, RDFs):

  • creativecommons/cc.engine
  • creativecommons/cc.i18n
  • creativecommons/cc.license
  • creativecommons/cc.licenserdf
  • creativecommons/rdfadict

• WordPress and styles:

  • creativecommons/new-creativecommons.org

As of 2019 December, there are around 9,700 lines of python code split between the repositories.

License Engine Setup

⚠️ We do not support local development at this time. Creative Commons maintains a staging server (configured per creativecommons/sre-salt-prime) for development.

1. Install prerequisites:
   • Redland RDF Libraries Python bindings (python-librdf package on Debian. Due to this prerequisite, setup on macOS is not recommended.)
   • pipenv (pipenv package on Debian)
2. Execute Install Script: ./scripts/setup_engine.sh (scripts/setup_engine.sh)
   1. Clones cc.engine and related respositories
      • Checks out specified branch (ARG1, defaults to master)
   2. Creates symlinks to support the semantic web
   3. Creates Python Environment via pipenv
   4. Generate ccengine.fcgi and copies config.ini into python_env
   5. Compiles mo files and transstats
      • Creates transstats.csv convenience symlink

Not Included

This project does not currently include the creativecommons/cc.api repository (which itself, depends on creativecommons/cc.license).

Styles and other Includes

⚠️ WARNING: Any change to style or other includes must be duplicated within the creativecommons/new-creativecommons.org repository.

License

• LICENSE (Expat/MIT License)