¿which licenses can i choose for my website?

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¿which licenses can i choose for my website?

Sosasees

i am currently making a personal website, and i have trouble deciding which license to choose for it.

for Images and Audio and Text Documents, i know that i can choose a Creative Commons License.

for programming code i know that i can choose the MIT License or another software license.

but choosing a license for a website is much more complicated:

a website is not software by itself but it's documents that have to be opened with a software (the web browser), but also a lot of these documents work like software when read in the browser.

this makes it difficult for me right now to determine wether i should license my webpages like text documents or like software.

cybereality

Well a website is essentially text (HTML code), so I think CC would still work. Or you could put no license and just place it in the public domain.

Calinou

@cybereality said: Or you could put no license and just place it in the public domain.

Not putting a license is not the same as public domain. When you don't add a license, users don't have a right to do anything with your work.

cybereality

Interesting. I always put a copyright notice, but the HTML code is basically worthless anyhow. I only license the actual source code of the project (for example on Github).

Sosasees

@cybereality thanks very much for suggesting Creative Commons for HTML code.

Sosasees

i must license different parts of the website under different licenses:

HTMLCreative Commons Images & AudioCreative Commons JavaScriptSoftware License CSS?

Since CSS changes the appearance of existing HTML pages, and doesn't do anything by itself, it's technically a configuration file. ¿which licenses can i choose for CSS?

cybereality

Honestly, I don't think it matters much, because it's not really useful to copy HTML/CSS code from someone else's website. You would have to do so much modification, it is easier to do from scratch. Though if it is important to you, go ahead, it can't hurt anything.

For config files, I think one of the GNU licenses could work. If you don't care about people taking the code and doing whatever, then maybe go with GNU All-Permissive License. You can also use this for HTML I believe, but I didn't look into it that far.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list#SoftwareLicenses

Sosasees

@cybereality said: For config files, I think one of the GNU licenses could work. If you don't care about people taking the code and doing whatever, then maybe go with GNU All-Permissive License. You can also use this for HTML I believe, but I didn't look into it that far.

The work-in-progress audio editor Tenacity uses MIT License for the HTML & CSS code on their website.

Sosasees

so, ¿did i understand right that i can use these licenses for these parts of the website?:

Audio & ImagesCreative Commons (CC) HTML & CSSCC or Software License JavaScriptSoftware License

cybereality

Yeah, that looks fine.