Monday, April 11, 2011

Creative Commons

There are many types of creative commons licensing. There are 6 of them as follows: 1. Attribute - most accommodating license 2. Attribution- Share Alike- lets other "rebuild, retweek upon work." This is "copyleft" free. Wikipedia uses this type of license. 3. Attribution- NoDerivs- Allows you to redistribute "as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you." 4. Attribution-NonCommercial- You can retweak work but you have to acknowledge the original source and be non-commercial. But, you do not have to follow the same licensing terms. 5. Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike- You can remix or build upon others work, but you have to give them credit and use the same terms. 6. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs- Most restrictive license. You can't change the work, you can only download it.
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