Creative Commons License
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The Creative Commons License relates to the name of some copyright licenses released on December 16, 2002 by Creative Commons, a United States nonprofit corporation founded in 2001.
There are four key license conditions, in brief:
- Attribution (by): Permit others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and derivative works based upon it only if they give you credit.
- Noncommercial (nc): Permit others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and derivative works based upon it only for noncommercial purposes.
- No Derivative Works (nd): Permit others to copy, distribute, display and perform only verbatim copies of the work, not derivative works based upon it.
- Share Alike (sa): Permit others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work. (See also copyleft).
Some combinations of the above restrictions is possible, e.g. "CC by-sa" (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike).
[edit] References
- Portions of this article are taken from the Creative Commons website, published under the Creative Commons Attribution License v1.0
