Creative Commons licenses

CC licenses at least allow you to download and redistribute your publication with your name on it. However, you can also grant more extensive rights if you wish. We have compiled an overview for you below. You can find detailed information on the homepage of creative commons.
Another overview is offered as a flyer by the project OGeSoMo, Natalie Leinweber.
 

You can download a checklist on this page, where you can find the right license by answering 4 simple questions. We have included the corresponding graphic for you here (click to enlarge):

This graphic was provided by the e-learning working group of TU Darmstadt under the license CC BY-SA 3.0 DE. The logos used are from Creative Commons.
This graphic was provided by the e-learning working group of TU Darmstadt under the license CC BY-SA 3.0 DE. The logos used are from Creative Commons.
This graphic was provided by Jöran Muuß-Merholz and Susanne Witt for the wb-web working group under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license.
This graphic was provided by Jöran Muuß-Merholz and Susanne Witt for the wb-web working group under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license.

This license allows others to distribute, remix, edit and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as you are credited as the author of the original. This is the version we prefer.

This license allows others to distribute, remix, edit, and build upon your work, including commercially, as long as you are credited as the author of the original work and new works based on your work are published under the same terms.

This license allows others to redistribute your work, commercially and non-commercially, as long as it is done without modification and in its entirety, and you are credited as the author.

This license allows others to distribute, remix, edit and build upon your work, but only non-commercially.

This license allows others to distribute, remix, edit, and build upon your work, but only non-commercially and as long as you are credited as the author of the original and new works based on your work are published under the same terms.

This is the most restrictive of the six core licenses. It only allows download and redistribution of the work with attribution to you, but no editing or commercial use.