Show Creative Commons licence on content

How to show creative commons licence on your site.

As some people want to licence their content under creative commons … and I said I’d write a bit of code … Here goes …

Creative Commons recommend a notice that looks like ..

© 2019. This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 license .

Creative Commons also say the notice is put on every webpage you want to licence - so avoid just putting this in the footer on your site with out any options … unless you want all your personal photos, blog posts, etc to be licenced for re-use.

In your front matter add the param copy with options for:

• true (Non-commercial, by Attribution)
• ncsa (Non-commercial, ShareAlike)
• if you dont set this … the fallback will be your Copyright notice in your footer

Then in your single layout … (as you want to licence that specific article …)

{{ if eq .Params.copy true}}
    <div class="copy"></div><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons Licence" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License</a>.</div>
{{else if eq .Params.copy "ncsa"}}
    <div class="copy"><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons Licence" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a>.</div>
{{ end }}

Obviously - you can expand it and add more options … I didn’t do CC0 as I wouldn’t use it myself

Note - I wrapped it in a custom div class so that I can later build a test to check it is present

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