Creative Commons License
The Creative Commons License refers to the name of several copyright licenses released in December 16, 2002 by Creative Commons, a US nonprofit corporation founded in 2001.
There are four key license terms, in brief:
- Attribution: Permit others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and derivative works based upon it only if they give you credit.
- Noncommercial: Permit others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and derivative works based upon it only for noncommercial purposes.
- No Derivative Works: Permit others to copy, distribute, display and perform only verbatim copies of the work, not derivative works based upon it.
- Share Alike: Permit others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work. (See also copyleft).
(a combination of the above restrictions is possible)
References
- Portions of this article are taken from the Creative Commons website, published under the Creative Commons Attribution License v1.0
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Referenced By
Creative Commons | Founders' Copyright | Javapedia | Midgard (software) | October Open Game License | OpenContent | Open content | Open gaming
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