What are the Creative Commons licenses?
Q: What are the Creative Commons licenses?
A: The Creative Commons licenses are several copyright licenses released by Creative Commons, a nonprofit corporation in the United States.
Q: Who can put their creations under these licenses?
A: Everybody can put their own creations under these licenses.
Q: What are the four basic license conditions?
A: The four basic license conditions are Attribution (BY), Noncommercial (NC), No Derivative Works (ND), and Share Alike (SA).
Q: What does the Attribution (BY) license condition allow others to do with the work?
A: The Attribution (BY) license condition allows others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and evolved versions of it. They must give the original creator credit for the work.
Q: What does the Noncommercial (NC) license condition allow others to do with the work?
A: The Noncommercial (NC) license condition allows others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and evolved versions of it. However, they are not allowed to make money with it.
Q: What does the No Derivative Works (ND) license condition allow others to do with the work?
A: The No Derivative Works (ND) license condition allows others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work. However, they are not allowed to change the work into something else.
Q: What does the Share Alike (SA) license condition allow others to do with the work?
A: The Share Alike (SA) license condition allows others to distribute evolved works only when they use the same license. It is similar to copyleft.
