[sc-discuss] Licensing work

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Wed Dec 13 13:22:26 EST 2006


On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 14:24 +0800, Kevin Veragoo wrote:
> Greetings. I am a researcher at the Singapore Institute of
> High Performance Computing and we are planning to make some of our
> Technical Reports/ Draft Papers available for download on our site. We
> already have a setup for software, software.ihpc.a-star.edu.sg, and
> now working on a similar site for text document.
>
> I had originally planned to release them under the creative commons,
> as on http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/, but now I'm a bit
> confused about what the CC Science is and whether it's a different
> license.

There is no separate SC copyright license. For example, PLoS journals
use CC BY.
> 
> I am also not sure whether the document itself needs to have a copy of
> the license, or whether it's enough to say "this work is released
> under Creative Commons".

You don't have to include the license but you do have to specific which
CC license as there are several.  Including the license URI does this.

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