Creative Commons 4.0 Markdown

On November 25th, 2013, Creative Commons announced their next generation licenses: Creative Commons 4.0. By default, these are available as HTML or plaintext. This project adds Markdown-formatted licenses to that list.

Unfortunately, the output currently varies on different Markdown viewers, in particular when it comes to indentation levels. Version 0.1 uses tabs to indent text, which might cause some blocks to be interpreted as blocks (e.g. on GitHub); version 0.2 uses spaces, resulting in less readable files when viewed as plain text.

If you any suggestion on the formatting, feel invited to contribute.

Licenses

• BY Attribution
• BY-NC Attribution-NonCommercial
• BY-NC-ND Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
• BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
• BY-ND Attribution-NoDerivatives
• BY-SA Attribution-ShareAlike
• C0 CC0

File extension

There's a plethora of Markdown file extensions, but I have decided to go with markdown. Read why:

"We no longer live in a 8.3 world, so we should be using the most descriptive file extensions. It’s sad that all our operating systems rely on this stupid convention instead of the better creator code or a metadata model, but great that they now support longer file extensions."
Hilton Lipschitz (via)

"…the only file extension I would endorse is “.markdown”, for the same reason offered by Hilton Lipschitz"
John Gruber, creator of Markdown (via)

Contribute

If you notice any mistakes in content or formatting, please send a pull request with your correction.