Creative Commons

Creative Commons License

The Creative Commons relates to a licensing model for Open Source Software. It is used by many open hardware developers and covers many but not all the needs of that community as well.

It covers a basic licensing model and then offers optional variations as would suit the creator of the work. The various options are described on the Creative Commons site.

It is a legally binding solution that operates on Copyright law which is respected in almost all countries world wide.

The most common versions used on the RepRap project are

• CC-BY-SA Creative Commons, Attribution required, Share Alike, No unlicensed Commercial use.
• CC-BY-NC-SA Creative Commons, Attribution required, Share Alike, No unlicensed Commercial use.