Playing with licenses - II

In the last post Playing with licenses we have outlined the main points for two kind of licenses:

- All right reserved: Author (the person who created the media work) has all the rights.

- Creative Commons (CC) license: Author leaves some rights. This license can take six forms:

Attribution (BY)

Figure 1. License BY

This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered, in terms of what others can do with your works licensed under Attribution.

Attribution - Share Alike (BY-SA)

Figure 2. License BY-SA

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial reasons, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use.

Atribution - No Derivatives (BY-ND)

Figure 3. BY-ND license

This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed

along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.

Attribution - Non commercial (BY-NC)

Figure 4. Attribution - Non commercial

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.

Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike (BY-NC-SA)

Figure 5. BY-NC-SA

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. Others can download and redistribute your work just like the by-nc-nd license, but they can also translate, make remixes, and produce new stories based on your work. All new work based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also be non-commercial in nature.

Attribution Non commercial Non derivatives (BY-NC-ND)

Figure 6. BY-NC-ND

This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, allowing redistribution. This license is often called the “free advertising” license because it allows others to download your works and share them with others as long as they mention you and link back to you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.