Creative Commons Licenses¶

Documentation extracted from: https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/cclicenses/

Creative Commons (CC) licenses give everyone from individual creators to large institutions a standardized way to grant the public permission to use their creative work under copyright law. From the reuser’s perspective, the presence of a Creative Commons license on a copyrighted work answers the question, What can I do with this work?.

By default, BSC datasets must be assigned a CC-BY license unless otherwise agreed upon. Please, do not use the CC0 license option.

CC License options¶

There are six different license types, listed from most to least permissive here:

CC BY
- BY: credit must be given to the creator.
CC BY-SA
- BY: credit must be given to the creator.
- SA: Adaptations must be shared under the same terms.
CC BY-NC
- BY: credit must be given to the creator.
- NC: Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted.
CC BY-NC-SA
- BY: credit must be given to the creator.
- NC: Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted.
- SA: Adaptations must be shared under the same terms.
CC BY-ND
- BY: credit must be given to the creator.
- ND: No derivatives or adaptations of the work are permitted.
CC BY-NC-ND
- BY: credit must be given to the creator.
- NC: Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted.
- ND: No derivatives or adaptations of the work are permitted.

The CC0 Public Domain Dedication¶

CC0 (aka CC Zero) is a public dedication tool, which enables creators to give up their copyright and put their works into the worldwide public domain. CC0 enables reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, with no conditions.

Choose your license¶

The specifics of each license type are outlined below in the License decision tree.

You can also use online forms like this one from creative commons.

Creative Commons compatibilities