Figma Community License: Explanation & Opinion

Hey @d3sign thanks for reaching out and asking this.

  1. The community license is not required to be exclusive, meaning an author can always choose to license something under a different license in addition to the community license (such as an MIT license, or making something public domain). Figma doesn’t currently have a way for you to change the license as an author, so if you wanted to make community content available under an MIT (or other license), you would need to make that intent clear, either on the community page or by publishing the content on another website.

  2. This is really going to depend on what and how much you took. We (Figma) can’t offer legal advice, but we can direct you to the CC by 4.0 license (available here: Creative Commons — Attribution 4.0 International — CC BY 4.0) and the CC wiki (available here: Best practices for attribution - Creative Commons), both of which are excellent resources on what and when attribution is required for CC by 4.0 content.

  3. Not 100% sure what you mean but this, but if I’m understanding this correctly, this is a question of how to handle cases where you need to attribute multiple people. Again, we (Figma) can’t offer legal advice, but the CC wiki (available here: Best practices for attribution - Creative Commons) discusses this issue, as well as best practices around attribution.

I hope this helps. :slight_smile: