Inserting a Creative Commons Licence into a LaTeX document

Question

I'd like to insert a CC license on a manuscript (a book or report). I've seen the page for downloading the CC icons, and also some questions asked in the forum CC logo and Generate CC information.

However, I do not get how to create the actual thing!

Q: Can you please provide an example of a license info page (MWE)? That would be really helpful!

Answer 1

I wrote a package for this as I used something similar as Raniere Silva and I wanted it a bit more clean :)

The package is called doclicense. Check out the following mini example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[
    type={CC},
    modifier={by-nc-sa},
    version={3.0},
]{doclicense}
\begin{document}
\doclicenseThis
\end{document}

Answer 2

The ccicons LaTeX package provides a set of icons to represent the Creative Commons licenses. There are macros for each icon, as well as shortcuts that allow you to simply drop a specific set of license icons for a license type (e.g., \ccbyncsa will add the CC logo, the attribution icon, the noncommercial (in US dollars) icon, and the share-and-share alike icon)).

Icons are a PostScript Type 1 font, so they scale cleanly.

https://www.ctan.org/pkg/ccicons?lang=en

Answer 3

There is a package that do it for you (the documentation is only available in portuguese at the moment): https://gitorious.org/mundo-livre/creative-commons-licenses-for-latex.

For my documents I use the code below in the cover.

 \begin{tabular}{|p{.9\textwidth}|}
 \hline
 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
 \begin{center}
 \includegraphics[scale=1]{cc-by-sa.png}
 \end{center}\\
 \hline
 \end{tabular}

Answer 4

Based on the answer by @raniere-silva, and information on the Creative Commons page, I manage to put the information in a way I liked.

I went to the CC page and download the logo (in svn), based in the kind of license I choose. Using InkScape I transformed into pdf.

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage[framemethod=tikz]{mdframed}

\definecolor{cccolor}{rgb}{.67,.7,.67}

\begin{document}

\begin{mdframed}[outerlinecolor=black,outerlinewidth=2pt,linecolor=cccolor,middlelinewidth=3pt,roundcorner=10pt]
  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
  \begin{center}
    \includegraphics[scale=2]{by-nc-sa.pdf}
  \end{center}
\end{mdframed}

\end{document}

The final result was

Answer 5

The Creative Commons icons are also included in the Font Awesome font, which is available in LaTeX via the fontawesome5 package:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{fontawesome5}

\begin{document}
    This answer is under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license \faCreativeCommons\ \faCreativeCommonsBy\ \faCreativeCommonsSa
\end{document}

Answer 6

I started using the brilliant https://www.ctan.org/pkg/doclicense package for this. For an article prepared with the amsart class, I wanted the license notice to appear as a footnote. Using \thanks with \doclicenseThis did not work so well, so I ended up using the following:

\maketitle
\insert\footins{% taken from amsart.cls
  \normalfont\footnotesize
  \interlinepenalty\interfootnotelinepenalty
  \splittopskip\footnotesep \splitmaxdepth \dp\strutbox
  \floatingpenalty10000 \hsize\columnwidth
  This is a post-print (accepted manuscript) version of
  this paper, which has been published in ... and is 
  available from \url{...}.
  \doclicenseThis\par}