The original set of licenses all grant the "baseline rights". The details of each of these licenses depends on the version, and comprises a selection of four conditions:
Attribution (by): Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform the work and make derivative works based on it only if they give the author or licensor the credits in the manner specified by these.
Noncommercial or NonCommercial (nc): Licensees may copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and make derivative works based on it only for noncommercial purposes.
No Derivative Works or NoDerivs (nd): Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform only verbatim copies of the work, not derivative works based on it.
ShareAlike (sa): Licensees may distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs the original work. Mixing and matching these conditions produces six licenses: remember the initials to do the right choice in your articles!
The menu on the left describes the six licenses. The Creative Commons Foundation wrote two kinds of text: the first is "a human-readable summary" and is called "Common Deed"; the second is the "Legal Code", aka the complete test, that you can read at the end of every summary page.
For every questiond please read the FAQs or browse the links!
