We have been building free software at Creative Commons (CC) for over a decade.
We work on code and products that support digital creativity and sharing, from usability of our legal tools to enabling discovery of CC-licensed content.
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Help CC’s mission by contributing to our products, integrating our tools into your project, or using our plugins. We have a small team and really appreciate your involvement!
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All Available Projects
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Integrate CC licenses
Chooser
CC license selection tool for your project.
Platform Toolkit
Give users the option to openly license their content.
Recent Blog Posts
Refactoring and Releasing the new CC Chooser: Part 1
bySara Lovell on 2025-07-11Open-source ,Cc-chooser ,Cc-vocabularyMigrating from MariaDB 10.4 to 10.11 on AWS RDS
byShafiya Heena on 2025-03-24Open-source ,CollaborationReflecting On My Outreachy Journey With Creative Commons
byQueen Fawale on 2025-02-27Outreachy ,Outreachy-2024 ,Open-source ,CommunityFinding Problems, and Exercising Compassion
bySara Lovell on 2025-02-04Open-source ,Collaboration
Featured Projects
CC Legal Tools Application
Legal tool (licenses, public domain dedication, etc.) management application for Creative Commons
CC Chooser
The new and improved CC license selection tool.
Quantifying the Commons
quantify the size and diversity of the commons--the collection of works that are openly licensed or in the public domain