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License Briefs — Development skill for Claude Code

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The CC license families in plain language: what each requires and when to use which.

How to install License Briefs

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/surendranb-free-image-library-license-briefs/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/surendranb-free-image-library-license-briefs && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/surendranb/free-image-library/HEAD/skills/license-briefs.md -o ~/.claude/skills/surendranb-free-image-library-license-briefs/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What License Briefs does

description: The CC license families in plain language: what each requires and when to use which.

License briefs (plain language, not legal advice)

License	Credit?	Commercial?	Modifications?	When to pick
CC0	not required (nice)	yes	yes	Blog heroes, product surfaces, "just let me use it"
PDM (Public Domain Mark)	not required	yes	yes	Same as CC0; work already public domain
CC BY	REQUIRED	yes	yes (credit + link to license

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