Welcome — Creative Commons Open Source

We have been building free software at Creative Commons (CC) for over a decade.

We work on code and products that support digital creativity and sharing, from usability of our legal tools to enabling discovery of CC-licensed content.

Join the Developer Community

This site is for developers looking to contribute, but anyone can use CC tools to share their works.

Share your work using our licenses/tools

Get Involved

Help CC’s mission by contributing to our products, integrating our tools into your project, or using our plugins. We have a small team and really appreciate your involvement!

Help us build our products

Contribution Guidelines

Learn how to contribute and then get started.

Community Team

Become a member of our community volunteer team.

All Available Projects

See all of our open source projects in one place.
Integrate CC licenses

Chooser

CC license selection tool for your project.

Platform Toolkit

Give users the option to openly license their content.

Recent Blog Posts

Refactoring and Releasing the new CC Chooser: Part 1
by Sara Lovell on 2025-07-11 Open-source , Cc-chooser , Cc-vocabulary
Migrating from MariaDB 10.4 to 10.11 on AWS RDS
by Shafiya Heena on 2025-03-24 Open-source , Collaboration
Reflecting On My Outreachy Journey With Creative Commons
by Queen Fawale on 2025-02-27 Outreachy , Outreachy-2024 , Open-source , Community
Finding Problems, and Exercising Compassion
by Sara Lovell on 2025-02-04 Open-source , Collaboration

See all posts

Featured Projects

CC Legal Tools Application

Legal tool (licenses, public domain dedication, etc.) management application for Creative Commons
CC Chooser

The new and improved CC license selection tool.
Quantifying the Commons

quantify the size and diversity of the commons--the collection of works that are openly licensed or in the public domain

We have been building free software at Creative Commons (CC) for over a decade.

Get Involved

Help us build our products

Integrate CC licenses

Recent Blog Posts

Featured Projects