LibGuides: Open Educational Resources Information: OER Licensing Information

Licensing Explanation

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Creative Commons Licenses
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Seven Regularly Used Licenses

Seven regularly used licenses

The seven licenses in most frequent use are shown in the following table. Among them, those accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation – the public domain dedication and two attribution (BY and BY-SA) licenses – allow the sharing and remixing (creating derivative works), including for commercial use, so long as attribution is given.^[26]^[27]^[28]

Description	Shortening	Attribution Required	Allows Remix culture	Allows commercial use	Allows Free Cultural Works	Meets the OKF 'Open Definition'
Freeing content globally without restrictions	CC0	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Attribution alone	BY	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Attribution + ShareAlike	BY-SA	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Attribution + Noncommercial	BY-NC	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Attribution + Noncommercial + ShareAlike	BY-NC-SA	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Attribution + NoDerivatives	BY-ND	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
Attribution + Noncommercial + NoDerivatives	BY-NC-ND	Yes	No	No	No	No

Creative Commons Rights

Wikipedia Creative Commons Licenses

Icon	Right	Description
	Attribution (BY)	Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform the work and make derivative works and remixes based on it only if they give the author or licensor the credits (attribution) in the manner specified by these. Since version 2.0, all Creative Commons licenses require attribution to the creator and include the BY element.
	Share-alike (SA)	Licensees may distribute derivative works only under a license identical to ("not more restrictive than") the license that governs the original work. (See also copyleft.) Without share-alike, derivative works might be sublicensed with compatible but more restrictive license clauses, e.g. CC BY to CC BY-NC.)
	Non-commercial (NC)	Licensees may copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and make derivative works and remixes based on it only for non-commercial purposes.
	No Derivative Works (ND)	Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform only verbatim copies of the work, not derivative works and remixes based on it. Since version 4.0, derivative works are allowed but must not be shared.