Description Of Licenses On ColRD
- Attribution
- You must include a link back to the original author.
This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.
- CC0
- CC0 frees the content from copyright restrictions around the world. All graphics created with ColRD software will use this license.
Using CC0, you can waive all copyrights and related or neighboring rights that you have over your work, such as your moral rights (to the extent waivable), your publicity or privacy rights, rights you have protecting against unfair competition, and database rights and rights protecting the extraction, dissemination and reuse of data.
In other words, CC0 graphics are open for any use you deem fit! - CC-BY-SA
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"Attribution-ShareAlike." You can create any derivitive work with these graphics, as long as you credit the original source.
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use.
- MIT
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It is a permissive license, meaning that it permits reuse within proprietary software on the condition that the license is distributed with that software.
- GPL
- "Gnu General Public License."
The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed to take away your freedom to share and change the works. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change all versions of a program--to make sure it remains free software for all its users.
—GNU - LGPL
- "Gnu General Public License."
Designed as a compromise between the strong-copyleft GNU General Public License or GPL and permissive licenses such as the BSD licenses and the MIT License.
- Free to use “as is.”
Notwithstanding that tradition, some free/open source software authors ask for voluntary donations, although there is no requirement to do so. Free / open source software is usually compatible with the strict Association of Shareware Professionals shareware guidelines.
- Public Domain
- No known copyright. These will typically be very old works. The original copyright has expired and the works are now free for modification and any use.