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.
Comparison chart
| 16 December, 2002 | January 1989 |
| Creative Commons, a US non-profitcorporation | Free Software Foundation's GNU Project |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Creative Commons licenses are for all kinds of creative works: websites, scholarship, music, film, photography, literature, courseware, etc. | GPL is primarily designed forsoftwares |
| 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 |
| No | Yes |
| No | Yes |
| No | Yes |
| Some licenses - Yes, others - No | Yes |
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