Real-Life Examples of Creative Commons in Software and Education

📚 Quick Study Guide

• ⚖️ Creative Commons (CC) licenses allow creators to grant permissions for others to use their work.
• 💻 In software, CC licenses are less common than open-source licenses (e.g., MIT, Apache, GPL), but they can be used for documentation, graphics, or other non-code elements.
• 🍎 In education, CC licenses are widely used for Open Educational Resources (OER), making learning materials freely available.
• 📝 CC licenses have different levels of permissions: Attribution (BY), ShareAlike (SA), NonCommercial (NC), and NoDerivatives (ND).
• 🌐 CC BY: Allows others to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they give you credit.
• ♻️ CC BY-SA: Same as CC BY, but requires that any derivative works be licensed under the same terms.
• 💰 CC BY-NC: Allows others to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they give you credit.
• 🚫 CC BY-ND: Allows others to reuse the work for any purpose, even commercially; however, it cannot be shared in modified form and credit must be given.

🧪 Practice Quiz

1. Question 1: Which Creative Commons license allows commercial use with attribution?
   1. A) CC BY-NC-ND
   2. B) CC BY-SA
   3. C) CC BY
   4. D) CC BY-NC
2. Question 2: Which Creative Commons license requires derivative works to be licensed under the same terms?
   1. A) CC BY
   2. B) CC BY-ND
   3. C) CC BY-SA
   4. D) CC BY-NC
3. Question 3: In education, what does OER stand for?
   1. A) Open Educational Requirements
   2. B) Open Educational Resources
   3. C) Organized Educational Research
   4. D) Official Educational Records
4. Question 4: Which of the following is NOT a common use case for Creative Commons licenses in software?
   1. A) Documentation
   2. B) Graphics
   3. C) Source code
   4. D) Fonts
5. Question 5: Which Creative Commons license prohibits the creation of derivative works?
   1. A) CC BY-SA
   2. B) CC BY-NC
   3. C) CC BY-ND
   4. D) CC BY
6. Question 6: If you find an educational resource licensed under CC BY-NC, can you use it for a for-profit training course?
   1. A) Yes, as long as you provide attribution.
   2. B) No, because it's NonCommercial.
   3. C) Yes, if you modify the resource.
   4. D) Only with explicit permission from the author.
7. Question 7: A photographer releases their photos under a CC BY license. Can a company use these photos on their commercial website?
   1. A) No, CC BY prohibits commercial use.
   2. B) Yes, as long as they give attribution to the photographer.
   3. C) Only if they modify the photos.
   4. D) Only if the company is a non-profit.