Creative Commons International
South Africa
The South Africa license has now been integrated into the Creative Commons licensing process, so you are able to license your works under this jurisdiction's law.
The latest version of the licenses available for this jurisdiction are:
- Attribution 2.5 South Africa
- Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 South Africa
- Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 South Africa
- Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 South Africa
- Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.5 South Africa
- Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 South Africa
Many thanks to all who contributed to the license-porting process. This page remains for reference.
Please take a look at the mailing-list archive if you are interested in the academic discussion leading to the South Africa final license.
Creative Commons is working with the University of the Witwatersrand LINK Centre to create South Africa jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses.
CCi South Africa List
Project Lead: Andrew Rens and Dave Duarte
- License draft.
- English explanation of substantive legal changes.
- See the project website.
- Subscribe to the discussion.
- Subscribe to the weekly mailing list.

More about the LINK Centre
The LINK Centre is the leading research and training body in the field of information and communications technology (ICT) policy, regulation and management in Southern Africa.
The Centre offers high level management, policy and development skills through a combination of training and applied research activities. The Centre aims to produce world class professionals who are able to exercise vision, leadership and executive management capability in the introduction and application of ICT in public institutions (both governmental and non-governmental).
