Creative Commons Licenses

Creative Commons Licenses

There are six Creative Commons licenses.

All of them require giving credit, or attribution, to the creator.

The licenses differ in

  • whether they allow modifications (derivative works)
  • what types of licenses they require of derivative works
  • if they permit reuse for commercial purposes

For more information about the licenses, visit the
Creative Commons' "About the Licenses" page.

Attribution - CC BY

  Credit the creator/licensor?   Yes
   Redistribute/modify?   Both
  Same license terms to derivatives?   No
  Uses permitted?  Non-commerical and commercial

Attribution - NonCommercial - CC BY-NC

   Credit the creator/licensor?   Yes
   Redistribute/modify?   Both
   Same license terms to derivatives?   No
   Uses permitted? Non-commerical

Attribution - ShareAlike - CC BY-SA

   Credit the creator/licensor?   Yes
   Redistribute/modify?   Both
   Same license terms to derivatives?   Yes
   Uses permitted? Non-commerical and commercial

Attribution - No Derivatives - CC BY-ND

   Credit the creator/licensor?   Yes
   Redistribute/modify?   Redistribute only
   Same license terms to derivatives?   No
   Uses permitted? Non-commerical and commercial

Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike - CC NC-SA

   Credit the creator/licensor?   Yes
   Redistribute/modify?   Both
   Same license terms to derivatives?  Yes
   Uses permitted? Non-commerical  only

Attribution - NonCommerical - NoDerivatives - CC BY-NC-ND

   Credit the creator/licensor?   Yes
   Redistribute/modify?   Redistribute only
   Same license terms to derivatives?   No
   Uses permitted? Non-commerical only
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