13 Creative Commons Alternatives
Alternative licenses
While Creative Commons licensing is a well-recognized, straight-forward, flexible type of licensing that is strongly associated with OER, there are other types of open licensing available.
GNU
The GNU General Public License is a “free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works.”
Copyleft
Copyleft is comparable to the Share Alike aspect of a Creative Commons license.
Public Domain
Works in the public domain are not copyrighted. Different countries have different copyright laws and lengths, however, which must be carefully checked.
Creative Commons has tools that allow users to place their works in the public domain.
Attributions
The GNU General Public License version 3 logo is in the Public Domain.
The Copyleft symbol by Zscout370 is in the Public Domain.
The Public Domain logo has been copied from Creative Commons and is used under a CC BY license.
This chapter is adapted from the Faculty OER Toolkitby BCcampus is used under a CC-BY 4.0 International license. Download this book for free at http://open.bccampus.ca