For questions about the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) licenses.
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Do the CC licenses prevent insults?
Most CC licenses allow a change of the material
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
I am a big fan of CC licenses, because they enable creativity and progress. I see a bit of problems when it…
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How to provide credit when modifying a design with a CC BY-SA license?
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A few years ago, I've designed a low-cost scientific instrument and published all schematics, building instructions and necessary scripts in open source under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC BY-SA). By releasing…
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Clarifying "Share Alike" in CC licenses
I am working on some materials for sale to history teachers. I have found a map that has a:
CC BY-SA 3.0
...licensed attached. I am not adapting the map or altering it in any way.
My understanding is that since there is no "non-commercial" clause…
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What is the exact definition of an Adaptation under Creative Commons?
The text of the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license mentions the following:
You may Distribute or Publicly Perform an Adaptation only under the terms of:
(i) this License;
(ii) a later version of this License with the same License Elements as this License;
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Questions about CC BY-SA 3.0 text adaptaion and penalties for violations
I am plan to use big non-modified parts of text from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 3.0 in new text material also licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0: just copy paste it into new material. Than i want create a list on links of the sources with additional notice…
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Using cc-by-sa 4.0 in a server
Can one build a server that uses a cc by sa database for computation but does not respond with the cc 4.0 without giving attribution or follwing the terms of cc 4.0?
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Why didn't Creative Commons make CC-BY-SA 4.0 backwards compatible with CC-BY-SA 3.0?
According to Wikipedia's official copyright FAQ:
According to the WMF legal team, CC BY-SA 4.0 is not backwards compatible with CC BY-SA 3.0. Therefore, mixing text licenses under 3.0 and 4.0 would be problematic, however media files uploaded under…
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Can I include an image covered by CC Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 in a deck for a paid online course?
I would like to include this picture from Wikimedia into a deck that I am using to film a paid course on Udemy. The image was created by Elizabeth Goodspeed and covered by CC BY-SA 4.0
While I know that I am free to:
Share — copy and…
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How do I apply the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license?
I would like to create a github repository with this edited and in a special presentation format. How should I do it? What files the repository should contain and with what contents.
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Is there an official guideline from Creative Commons on how a CC-BY-SA 3.0 website could "upgrade" to CC-BY-SA 4.0?
It looks like Creative Commons only allows a relicensing from CC-BY-SA 3.0 to CC-BY-SA 4.0 for derivative works:
You may Distribute or Publicly Perform an Adaptation only under the terms of:
(i) this License;
(ii) a later version of this…
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