Creative Commons GNU GPL

The CC-GNU GPL adds the Creative Commons' metadata and Commons Deed to the Free Software Foundation's GNU General Public License. The license is the official FSF GPL, and includes a Portuguese translation.

To signal to others that you are using a Creative Commons license, you can use a Creative Commons logo, which links to the CC-GNU GPL. The result will look like this:

This software is licensed under the CC-GNU GPL.

Human-Readable Commons Deed	Lawyer-Readable Legal Code	Machine-Readable Digital Code

Here's how the CC-GNU GPL works: A user clicking on the Creative Commons icon gets the CC-GNU GPL "Commons Deed" — a human readable version of the license. From that she can link to "Legal Code" — the full text of the GNU GPL, in English and Portuguese. And hidden in the tag is "Machine-Readable Code" — metadata — that will enables others to find your software.

Mark Software

Display the icon on any site you offer your software for download using the following markup:

<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060417195459/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/">
<img alt="CC-GNU GPL" border="0" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20060417195459im_/http://creativecommons.org/images/public/cc-GPL-a.png"/></a><br/>
This software is licensed under the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060417195459/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/">CC-GNU GPL</a>.

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<Work rdf:about="">
   <license rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/" />
   <dc:type rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Software" />
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