Creative Commons Licenses Compatibility Wizard

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Introduction

  1. This wizard (chart) above should give you some assistance in figuring out which Creative Commons license you can use to relicense a work.
  2. To check out some compatible licenses (i.e., licenses you can use to relicense a work) from licenses of works you are using:
    1. According to those Creative Commons-licensed works you used, check the corresponding Creative Commons license in the left side (vertical-axis) of the chart above.
    2. You can see license names by hovering your mouse (or other point devices) cursor on those deed icons.
    3. Repeat first two steps until all CC-licensed work you used are checked properly.
    4. Alone with your checking process, some smiley faces ☻ may appear in the chart to mark those compatible licenses for each license of works you are used.
    5. For the intersection of compatible licenses, a light-blue background color will appear in the chart above.
    6. You can see the names of intersection of compatible licenses by hovering your mouse (or other point devices) cursor on those deed icons.
    7. This intersection of compatible licenses indicate Creative Commons licenses you can relicense your work under.
    8. If there is no light-blue backgrounded cell in the end of your operation, maybe you are using incompatible works.
    9. However, you can still look into smiley faces to figure out which work you have to drop out to ensure license compatibility.
    10. Then, you can check license compatibility again by using this wizard.
    11. Or maybe you can contact the author of particular work to gain extra permissions or rights to use that work.
  3. To check out up-stream licenses (i.e., licenses of works you'd like to use in your work) from license you'd like to relicense your work under:
    1. According to the Creative Commons license you'd like to relicense your work under, check the corresponding license in the upper side (horizontal-axis) of the chart above.
    2. You can see license names by hovering your mouse (or other point devices) cursor on those deed icons.
    3. Alone with your checking, some licenses will be highlighted with blue background in the left side (vertical-axis) of the chart above.
    4. Those highlighted licenses are usable up-stream licenses comppatible with one you'd like to relicense your work under.
    5. You can see those licenses names by hovering your mouse (or other point devices) cursor on those deed icons.
  4. By pressing the "Reset" button in the upper-left corner of the chart above, you can clear all selection and re-start again.
  5. For further questions,
  6. This application is modified from Licenses Wizard V3.0 of Open Source Software Foundry, and is licensed under the MIT license. The source code of this application can be downloaded here.