Welcome

Welcome to the homepage for all things Software Development at Creative Commons.

Get Involved

Getting involved with the Creative Commons Develoer Community is easy! Here are some examples of things you can work on:

The Creative Commons Development Community actively develops the following software projects:

liblicense - An abstract library for reading and writing license meta-data.
License tagger - A small cross-platform application which implements liblicense.
LicenseChooser.js - provides a lightweight method for integrating license selection into web applications.
ccHost - The software which powers ccMixter.
ccTeamspace, a task and project tracking system
Creative Commons Web Services
- License Wrappers language-specific wrappers for representing and manipulating license information
CcValidator - A web application for showing and verifying the metadata in web objects

Also see the Tools Category Index for links to additional projects. Code for our projects is hosted at code.creativecommons.org or Berlios.de; see the Source Repository Policy for information on contributing code or starting a new project. See the Source Repository Information page for general information about the available modules and how to check them out from source control.

The projects below are currently being discussed or explored:

Dream CC Tool - A discussion of the "ideal" CC tool; possibly the successor to ccPublisher?
Development Ideas - A collection of nascent ideas for CC-enabled tools. As these become more fleshed out, they'll be moved to their own pages.

Available ways to enable users to choose a license.
Reading Licenses in various programming languages
HOWTO Create, Apply and Submit Patches
Translating - Help localize for your language
Coding Style - General coding guidelines and settings
Using Markup
git phrasebook - Tips on using "git" well
Software Release Procedure - best practices for releasing CC Developer Community Software