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The Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license allows re-distribution and re-use of a licensed work on the conditions that the creator is appropriately credited and that any derivative work is made available under “the same, similar or a compatible license”.
What are the 5 Creative Commons licenses?
What are the different types of CC licenses?
- Attribution CC BY.
- Attribution ShareAlike CC BY-SA.
- Attribution-NoDerivs CC BY-ND.
- Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NC.
- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA.
- Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND.
What is Creative Commons attribution?
Attribution. CC BY. This license lets others distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered.
What does Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license do?
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licenses play a particularly important role in the Free or Libre Culture movement. This document lays out Creative Commons’ intention as steward for this class of licenses. First, it is important to understand the activities Creative Commons undertakes as a steward of licenses:
The 3.0 licenses added a compatibility clause. Creative Commons may declare a license compatible with ShareAlike, allowing it to be used instead of the exact same license for derivatives.
How many versions of the Creative Commons license are there?
As changes have been made to the Creative Commons licenses over the years there have been 4 versions of the BY-SA and BY-NC-SA licenses (1.0, 2.0, 2.5, and 3.0 ).
What is the Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic license?
Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.5) This is a human-readable summary of (and not a substitute for) the license. Disclaimer. Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format. Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material. for any purpose, even commercially.