Types of Common VN Licenses
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 8:35 pm
PUBLIC COPYRIGHT LICENSES
Public copyright licenses do not limit their licensees. In other words, any person can take advantage of the license. There are several types of public copyright licenses.
Libre licensed works which may be used, modified, copied and shared without permission from the copyright holder.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libre
Share-alike licenses require derivatives of the licensed work to be released under the same license as the original.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share-alike
The Creative Commons public copyright license suite includes licenses with attribution, share-alike, non-commercial and no-derivatives conditions. It also offers a public domain license and the Founders' Copyright license. This is the most commonly used license on lemmasoft, partly because of its flexibility.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons
Open supplement licenses permit derivatives of the work (specifically material that supplements the original work) but not duplicates.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_gamin ... t_licenses
Since CC licenses are most common, I'll include a description for the different types here. In general, this is a good resource when looking into a CC license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
TYPES OF CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES
Attribution
CC 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.
Attribution-ShareAlike
CC BY-SA
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.
Attribution-NoDerivs
CC BY-ND
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-NonCommercial
CC BY-NC
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-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
CC 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.
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
CC BY-NC-ND
This license allows others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.
Public copyright licenses do not limit their licensees. In other words, any person can take advantage of the license. There are several types of public copyright licenses.
Libre licensed works which may be used, modified, copied and shared without permission from the copyright holder.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libre
Share-alike licenses require derivatives of the licensed work to be released under the same license as the original.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share-alike
The Creative Commons public copyright license suite includes licenses with attribution, share-alike, non-commercial and no-derivatives conditions. It also offers a public domain license and the Founders' Copyright license. This is the most commonly used license on lemmasoft, partly because of its flexibility.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons
Open supplement licenses permit derivatives of the work (specifically material that supplements the original work) but not duplicates.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_gamin ... t_licenses
Since CC licenses are most common, I'll include a description for the different types here. In general, this is a good resource when looking into a CC license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
TYPES OF CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES
Attribution
CC 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.
Attribution-ShareAlike
CC BY-SA
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.
Attribution-NoDerivs
CC BY-ND
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-NonCommercial
CC BY-NC
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-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
CC 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.
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
CC BY-NC-ND
This license allows others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.