Attribution. Main Page. Putting a Creative Commons License in Your Feeds (RSS4Lib) Putting a Creative Commons License in Your Feeds By Ken Varnum on August 20, 2008Follow me on Twitter: @varnum Did you know you that it’s easy to add a creative commons license to your RSS and Atom feeds — not just to your blog’s web site? Here are brief instructions for adding your Creative Commons license to RSS and Atom feeds: You need to make two small edits to the RSS 2.0 template your blog software uses. Change the line that reads <rss version = "2.0"> to <rss version="2.0" xmlns:creativeCommons=" This is probably the second line in the RSS file.
Atom It is even easier to add a Creative Commons license to an Atom feed. So What? I suppose that putting the license on the web site alone is enough, from a strict legal standpoint. Entry filed under: Syndication. Creative Commons Search. Creative Commons Search.