Creative Commons licensing types


There are different types of Creative Commons license depending on the rights you want to transfer. On the website of the organization you find a useful form that will make it very easy to choose the one that's right for you, just select the different options! It's easier to understand trying directly to do it, but if you want to have a summary of the various licenses, here it is.

Please pay attention! :  Many research funders require Open Access publications to have a CC-BY license (for instance, the telethon Foundation, the European Commission for FP7 post-grant OA funding).



CC BY 4.0:

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. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.

 

CC BY-SA 4.0 (Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International)

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. This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use.



CC BY-ND 4.0 (Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International)

This license lets others reuse the work for any purpose, including commercially; however, it cannot be shared with others in adapted form, and credit must be provided to you.


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CC BY-NC 4.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International)

Same as CC BY, but Non Commercial: Others may not use the material for commercial purposes, unless they ask your permission first. You may exploit your own work commercially.

They may not distribute the original material or derivative works for commercial purposes, but derivative works may have different licenses from the original (for instance, CC BY-NC-ND).



CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International)

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.




CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International)
This license is the most restrictive of the six main licenses, only allowing 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.




CC0 (Public domain dedication)

This license allows you to give up their copyright and put their works into the worldwide public domain. CC0 allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, with no conditions.
You might be requested to use CC0 for raw data from your research.

Software
Creative Commons does not recommend using CC licenses for software: software-specific licenses exist, see https://choosealicense.com/




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