📋 Freebie Rights Card
The cheat sheet for “can I use this free download?” — keep a copy next to your desk.
1) The four badges
| Badge | Plain-English meaning |
|---|---|
| commercial-ok | Safe for things you sell, even business or book work. |
| share-and-adapt | Sharing and editing allowed (usually with credit). |
| personal-use-only | Your own projects only. Want commercial? Buy a license. |
| check-me | Rights unclear — read the license page first. |
2) The licenses in one breath each
- MIT — anything goes; just keep the copyright line in the file.
- CC0 / public domain — yours for anything, no credit needed.
- CC BY — anything, even commercial; give a credit line.
- CC BY-SA — credit, and your remix carries the same license.
- CC BY-NC — credit, but nothing commercial.
- CC BY-ND — share as-is; don’t modify.
- OFL 1.1 — font magic: embed, print, sell books with it; don’t sell the font itself.
- “Personal use only” — the expensive-surprise clause; commercial costs extra.
- Site terms (Freepik, Pixabay, etc.) — read the bullets: no reselling raw files, sometimes attribution, sometimes count limits.
3) The three questions at download time
- What can’t I do with this? (usually personal-only, no selling, no re-sharing)
- Who gets credit, and where?
- What do I keep? (license URL + file location → your catalog)
4) Attribution template
[Creator name] — [asset name] — [license, e.g. CC BY 4.0] — [link]
5) Red flags
- “Free” with no license page at all
- No commercial use, when commercial plans exist
- “Contact for permissions” — fine, but ask before you build
Freebie Rights Card — part of the Free Download Organization Kit by Asdale Dynamics, LLC · Educational only, not legal advice · Pair with docs/license-types.md for the full explanations, and log every download in index.html.