Creative Commons License

The Creative Commons License refers to the name of several copyright licenses released on December 16, 2002 by Creative Commons, a US nonprofit corporation founded in 2001.

There are four key license terms, 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).

References

• Portions of this article are taken from the Creative Commons website, published under the Creative Commons Attribution License v1.0