Creative Commons License

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)

References

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

External links

• The full selection of licenses (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/)
• Creative Commons web site (http://www.creativecommons.org/)