Creative Commons License(licensing, wiki, forked, Proteus)
The
Creative Commons License (CCL) is a type of
copyright. There are a number of different licenses available under the name
Creative Commons, all of which copyright protect works for distribution as an alternative to other
open source licences, such as the
GPL.
Creative Commons Articles
Original authors, photographers and other content providers submitted and used on
GetWiki have the option of using any of the Creative Commons Licenses, instead of using the default license for articles. To select a license for your work visit:
From there, you can select a license which meets your needs. If you accept the "no derivatives" option, please request your work here be protected by posting a note on the talk page. In order to use the Creative Commons License, or any other
Open Source alternative, please post the terms, link, or text reference within the work, along with the copyright information (a notice that the work is copyright by "you"). Also, provide a useful link back to the specific license you have chosen. An example:
| You may include the image to the right, to signify the Creative Commons copyright of your work.
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You could also include a combination of the images below, developed by Creative Commons to visually signify the various options, as they apply to your work and the license you have chosen:
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| Attribution |
You must give the original author credit
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| Noncommercial |
You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
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| No Derivative Works |
You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.
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| Share Alike |
If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one.
External Links
Some content adapted from the Wikinfo article "Creative Commons license" under the GNU Free Documentation License.
(last updated by Proteus, 6:43pm EST - Tue, Feb 19 2008)
