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Questions tagged [cc-by]

For questions relating to Creative Commons' Attribution (CC-BY) license.

The CC BY license is the most permissive of the Creative Commons family of licenses, with the simple requirement that any further modification or distribution of the licensed work credits the original author.

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What does "retain an indication of any previous modifications" mean?

In the CC-BY 4.0 public license, section 3(a)(1)(B) says if you Share the Licensed Material (including in modified form) You must "indicate if You modified the Licensed Material and retain an indication of any previous modifications". What does…
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More permissive license after adapting CC-BY4.0?

I'm adapting content released under CC-BY4.0 programatically (think regex and reformatting). I'm then releasing my adapted content, giving credit to the author of the content that was the origin of the now adapted content. Am I then allowed to give…
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Create and Sell a Wordpress Theme based on a Template under the CC BY License

This website: https://html5up.net/ offers lots of HTML 5 themes using CC BY licenses. Can I create my own Wordpress theme based on these HTML 5 templates and sell on a theme market like https://themeforest.net/ ?
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