What is licensed under CC BY SA?
What CC-By SA Means. The Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike License is one of the licenses created by the Creative Commons project. The freedom to use and perform the work: The licensee must be allowed to make any use, private or public, of the work.
What does licensed under CC BY NC ND mean?
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs: CC BY-NC-ND This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.
What is the difference between CC by and CC by NC?
It is the most liberal of the six Creative Commons licences in comparison with, for example, CC BY-ND (no derivatives, no modifications) and CC BY-NC (no commercial use). However, it does allow the copyright holder to give blanket permission for various actions that a reader/licensee might want to do.
Which is not under CC license?
The only categories of works for which CC does not recommend its licenses are computer software and hardware. You should also not apply Creative Commons licenses to works that are no longer protected by copyright or are otherwise in the public domain.
Can you modify the legal text of a CC license?
If you make a change to the text of any CC license, you may no longer refer to it as a Creative Commons or CC license, and you must not use any CC trademarks (including the Creative Commons name) or branding in connection with the license.
What do you need to know about copyleft licenses?
In order for the work to be truly copyleft, the license also has to ensure that the author of a derived work can only distribute such works under the same or equivalent license. More information about the copyleft license.
What can you do with a CC BY-SA license?
CC BY-SA: This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use. If you remix, adapt, or build upon the material, you must license the modified material under identical terms.
Is there a copyleft license similar to Creative Commons?
It is similar to the “Share Alike” stipulation of the Creative Commons licenses (and the SA icon resembles the copyleft icon). Copyleft licenses are often found on software packages, but can be used on any work. The GNU General Public License, originally written by Richard Stallman, was is first and most prominent software copyleft license.
How to apply a CC license or CC0 to your work?
How to apply a CC license or CC0 to your work CC-licensing your work is simple. All you have to do is choose the CC license that suits your needs and then communicate this choice in a way that will be clear to people who come across your work. As part of this communication, you should include a link to the license you’ve chosen.