Open Educational Resources (OER)

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  CC0 Public Domain Dedication Attribution By using CC0, you waive all copyright and related rights to a work to the extent possible under the law.
   

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  Attribution, CC BY This is the most open of all licenses offered. Allows others to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation.
   

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  Attribution-ShareAlike, CC BY-SA This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.
   

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  Attribution-NoDerivatives, CC BY-ND This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.
   

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  Attribution-NonCommercial, CC BY-NC This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
   

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  Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike, CC BY-NC-SA This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.
   

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  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs, CC BY-NC-ND 

CC License Chooser

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