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===Free licenses===

===Free licenses===
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* what is cc-by-sa 3.0?
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The person who creates a work is the owner of the work's copyright – which literally means "the right to copy" – unless they produced it on behalf of an organization or legally transferred the right to somebody else.
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* reasons you might choose other license [CC-BY or CC0]
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* other acceptable licenses
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A free license simply means the creator wants to allow others to use their work without asking prior permission. Doing so makes it easier to share work with others.

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The Commons default is the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license (CC BY-SA 3.0), which say that for a work released under the license, anyone may:

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* use it, copy it and share it; or

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* modify it and share the new work

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as long as the person using it

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* provides credit (''Attribution'') to the original author and notes the license; and

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* releases any modifications under the same license (''ShareAlike'', also known as ''copyleft'').

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====Other free licenses====

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Some people wish to share their works with even fewer restrictions. If you want to get credit when people use your work, but you don't mind if someone modifies or remixes it without sharing their new derivative work under the same terms, you can use the Creative Commons Attribution license, which doesn't have the ShareAlike requirement. And if you want to release your with no restrictions at all without requiring people credit you for your work, you can use CC0 public domain dedication to waive all your rights to it.

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