BC Commons

To signal to others that you are using a BC Commons license, you can use it logo that links to the deed. The result:

This software is licensed under the BC Commons License Opens in new window .

Here's how the BC Commons works: A user clicking on the BC Commons icon gets the "BC Commons Deed Opens in new window " — a human readable version of the license. From that one can link to the "Legal Code " — the full text of the BC Commons license.

Human-Readable Commons Deed	Lawyer-Readable Legal Code

How Do I Tag My Work?

- a webpage
- a word document
- a pdf or other Adobe production

For the Web - Display the icon by copying and pasting the following html markup into your source code:

<br />

This software is licensed under the
<a href="http://solr.bccampus.ca:8000/customer/BCcommons/publish/bccommons_readable.html" target="_blank">
BC Commons License</a>
<img src="http://solr.bccampus.ca:8000/customer/BCcommons/images/icon_newwindow.gif"
alt="Opens in new window" border=0 />.

For Word Documents - Copy and paste the following graphic and text into your document title page or the footer of each page:

This software is licensed
under the BC Commons License Opens in new window

For PDFs - Adobe Professional needs to be installed in order to create PDFs.
1. Follow the instructions for tagging word documents above.
2. Save the document.
3. Go to Adobe PDF -> Convert to Adobe PDF and give the pdf a name and location to be saved at.