The
Creative Commons License refers to the name of several
copyright licenses released in
December 16,
2002 by
Creative Commons, a
US company 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.
(a combination of the above restrictions is possible)
- Portions of this article are taken from the Creative Commons website, published under the CCL (Attribution License v1.0)