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Many of the licences, notably all the original licences, grant certain "baseline rights", Baseline rights and restrictions in CC licenses such as the right to distribute the copyrighted work without changes, at no charge. Some of the newer licences do not grant these rights. Creative Commons licenses are currently available in 34 different jurisdictions worldwide, with nine others under development. Creative Commons Worldwide THE ORIGINAL LICENSES The original set of licences all grant the "baseline rights". The details of each of these licences depends on the version, and comprises a selection of four conditions:
Mixing and matching these conditions produces sixteen possible combinations, of which eleven are valid Creative Commons licenses. Of the five invalid combinations, four include both the "nd" and "sa" clauses, which are mutually exclusive; and one includes none of the clauses, which is equivalent to releasing one's work into the Public Domain . The five of the eleven valid licenses that lack the Attribution element have been phased out because 98% of licensors requested Attribution, but are still available for viewing on the website. Creative Commons Licenses There are thus six regularly used licenses: # Attribution alone (by) # Attribution + Noncommercial (by-nc) # Attribution + NoDerivs (by-nd) # Attribution + ShareAlike (by-sa) # Attribution + Noncommercial + NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) # Attribution + Noncommercial + ShareAlike (by-nc-sa) OTHER LICENSES A number of special licenses have been introduced, which are more specialized:
Besides licenses, Creative Commons also offers an easy way to release material into the Public Domain through the '' Public Domain Dedication '', as well as '' Founder's Copyright '', through which the work is released into the public domain after 14 or 28 years. RETIRED LICENSES Due to either disuse or criticism, a number of previously offered Creative Commons licenses has since been retired
CRITICISM Debian The maintainers of Debian GNU/Linux , a Linux Distribution known for its adherence to Software Freedom , do not believe that even the Creative Commons Attribution License, the least restrictive of the licenses, adheres to the Debian Free Software Guidelines due to the license's anti- DRM provisions and its requirement in section 4a that downstream users remove an author's credit upon request from the author. debian-legal Summary of Creative Commons 2.0 Licenses by Evan Prodromou |
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