CREATIVE COMMONS

Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization whose head office is located in the city of Mountain View, California, in the United States of America, which allows the use and share of both, creativity and knowledge through a series of legal instruments free of charge.

The best way to understand what CC are is watching this short video:

Creative Commons (CC) grant certain basic rights. Six main types:

-          -   Attribution (CC-BY)

-           -  Attribution-Share Alike (CC-BY-SA)

-           -  Attribution-No Derivative Works. (CC-BY-SN)

-           -  Recognition BY

-           -  Non-Commercial (NC)

-           -  Share Alike (SA)

- Semi-free Software: No totally free but it can be redistributed, copied ... Nonprofit; specially designed for educational institutions, NGOs ... - Shareware: Software which can be tested by the user for an amount of time specified in the EULA. If after that time you have decided to continue using it you would have to pay a certain amount of money, usually not to much. - Adware: Software that while running, display or pop-up ads or that it  is attached to a program or window (toolbar ... ) - Demo / Trials: software with limited possibilities, the total functionality of the progra is not available.