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Creative Commons

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Licenses

Creative commons licenses/waivers form a spectrum spanning from complete freedom (CC0, public domain, no conditions on use) to complete fascism (prohibiting basically everything except for non-commercial sharing). This means that NOT all Creative Commons licenses are free cultural licenses -- this is acknowledged by Creative Commons and part of the design. Keep in mind that as a good human you mustn't ever use licenses with NC (non-commercial use only) or ND (no derivatives allowed) clauses, these make your work non-free and therefore unusable.

Here is a comparison of the Creative Commons licenses/waivers, from most free to least free:

name abbreviation free culture use share remix copyleft attribution non-commercial comment
Creative Commons Zero CC0 yes :) yes :) yes :) yes :) no :) no need :) no :) public domain, copyright waiver, no restrictions, most freedom, best, sadly doesn't waive patents and trademraks
Creative Commons Attribution CC BY yes :) yes :) yes :) yes :) no :) forced :( no :) no restrictions except for requiring attribution to authors
Creative Commons Sharealike CC SA yes :) yes :) yes :) yes :) yes :/ no need :) no :) retired, secret license, no longer recommended by CC, pure copyleft/sharealike without forced attribution
Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike CC BY-SA yes :) yes :) yes :) yes :) yes :/ forced :( no :) requires attribution to authors and copyleft (sharing under same terms)
Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial CC BY-NC NO! :((( yes but yes but yes but yes :/ forced :( yes :( proprietary fascist license prohibiting commercial use, DO NOT USE
Creative Commons Attribution NoDerivs CC BY-ND NO! :((( yes but yes but NO! :( yes :/ forced :( no but proprietary fascist license prohibiting modifications, DO NOT USE
Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND NO! :((( yes but yes but NO! :( yes :/ forced :( yes :( proprietary fascist license prohibiting commercial use and even modifications, DO NOT USE
none (all rights reserved) NO! :((( NO! :( NO! :( NO! :( FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU proprietary fascist option, prohibits everything, DO NOT USE