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What is Creative Commons Licenses

Chapter 30
Handbook of Research on Open Source Software: Technological, Economic, and Social Perspectives
Creative Commons licenses are a kind of licensing model which applies to open content. Creative Commons licenses are composed by four elements (attribution, noncommercial, no derivatives, and share alike). Creative Commons licenses allow the licensees to make use of CC-licensed works with no need to get prior permission from the licensors as long as the licensees follow the conditions the licensors chose for the works.
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Examining Open Source Software Licenses through the Creative Commons Licensing Model
Kwei-Jay Lin (University of California, USA), Yi-Hsuan Lin (Creative Commons Taiwan Project, Taiwan), and Tung-Mei Ko (OSSF Project, Taiwan)
Copyright: © 2007 |Pages: 12
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-999-1.ch030
Abstract
In this chapter, the authors present a novel perspective by using the Creative Commons (CC) licensing model to compare 10 commonly used OSS licenses. The authors also propose a license compatibility table to show that whether it is possible to combine OSS with CC-licensed open content in a creative work. By using the CC licensing concept to interpret OSS licenses, the authors hope that users can get a deeper understanding on the ideas and issues behind many of the OSS licenses. In addition, the authors hope that by means of this table, users can make a better decision on the license selection while combining open source with CC-licensed works.
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