What is the difference between Creative Commons License and GPL

Creative Commons License vs GPL

Creative Commons licenses are several copyright licenses released on December 16, 2002 by Creative Commons, a U.S. non-profit corporation founded in 2001. The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. 

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Improve this chart	Creative Commons License Currently 3.27/5 1 2 3 4 5 Rating: 3.3/5 (33 votes)	GPL Currently 3.70/5 1 2 3 4 5 Rating: 3.7/5 (37 votes)
Release Date of the original version:	16 December, 2002	January 1989
Released by:	Creative Commons, a US non-profitcorporation	Free Software Foundation's GNU Project
Guiding Philosophy:	Trying to draw a balance between the two extremes of copyrighted work and work in the public domain	To grant users the right to copy, modify, and redistribute the softwarewhich would otherwise be prohibited by copyright law
Conditions forlicensing:	Gives the authors of the creative work, a selection of four conditions and their combinations, under which they license their work	Conditions of licensing are standard and cannot be changed
Type of license:	Some of the licenses are Permissive free software licenses	Copyleft license - require copies and derivatives of the source codeto be made available on terms no more restrictive than those of the original licence
Use:	Creative Commons licenses are for all kinds of creative works: websites, scholarship, music, film, photography, literature, courseware, etc.	GPL is primarily designed forsoftwares
What is it?:	Creative Commons Licenses are a set of copyright licenses that give the recipients, rights to copy, modify and redistribute the creative material, but giving the authors, the liberty to decide the conditions oflicensing	It is the most widely used freesoftware license which grants the recipients, rights to copy, modify and redistribute the software and to ensure that the same rights were preserved in all derivative works
Compatible with GPL:	No	Yes
Debian FreeSoftwareGuidelines (DFSG) Approval:	No	Yes
Open Source Initiative (OSI) Approval:	No	Yes
Free Software foundation (FSF) Approval:	Some licenses - Yes, others - No	Yes

WHAT IS CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE?

The question to ask is always: HOW CAN I LICENSE MY WORK?

There is no registration to use the Creative Commons licenses. Licensing a work is as simple as selecting which of the six licenses best meets your goals, and then marking your work in some way so that others know that you have chosen to release the work under the terms of that license.

Creative Commons helps you share your knowledge and creativity with the world.

Creative Commons develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.

You are free:

• to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
• to Remix — to adapt the work
• to make commercial use of the work

Under the following conditions:

• Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).

With the understanding that:

• Waiver — Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.
• Public Domain — Where the work or any of its elements is in the public domain under applicable law, that status is in no way affected by the license.
• Other Rights — In no way are any of the following rights affected by the license:
  • Your fair dealing or fair use rights, or other applicable copyright exceptions and limitations;
  • The author's moral rights;
  • Rights other persons may have either in the work itself or in how the work is used, such aspublicity or privacy rights.