Websites using Creative Commons license
Creative Commons licenses let authors state how their content may be reused. About 107,133 websites in the PageSourceSearch index contain the code that reveals it; the 50 highest-ranked are listed below.
How is Creative Commons license detected?
Licensed pages link to the license deed under creativecommons.org/licenses/, often with rel=license. The discovery keyword is the exact bytes PageSourceSearch looks for in every stored page and script:
creativecommons.org/licenses/ Search the index for it
A literal is matched byte for byte, case-sensitively. Combine it with another keyword, a domain, a kind or a date filter on the search page to narrow the list. About Creative Commons license
Top 50 websites using Creative Commons license
Ranked by the domain's position in the crawl's ranked list (Common Crawl harmonic centrality), highest first. view source opens the stored page or script with the match highlighted. Computed 2026-09-29 22:33:02 UTC.
How it appears in the source
From gmpg.org (html):
GMPG has chosen to share all finished protocols and formats with the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/1.0/">(cc) Attribution-NoDerivs 1.0 (by-nd) license</a>. All finished examples
Questions about finding Creative Commons license
- How does PageSourceSearch know a website uses Creative Commons license?
- By the source itself: Licensed pages link to the license deed under creativecommons.org/licenses/, often with rel=license. PageSourceSearch stores the raw HTML and first-party JavaScript of each crawled site and matches the keyword byte for byte, so every listed site's stored source contains it.
- Is this a complete list of websites using Creative Commons license?
- No. The page lists the 50 highest-ranked sites in the index whose source holds the keyword, out of about 107,133 websites that do; the count is the index's estimate at the time the list was computed. Run the keyword as a search to page through all of them, or add a kind or date filter.
- How do I find websites that use Creative Commons license together with another technology?
- Search for both keywords at once: several terms separated by spaces must all be found on the same site, or with the Same page toggle in the same page. For example creativecommons.org/licenses/ with wp-content/plugins/ lists the WordPress sites that use Creative Commons license.