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This page doesn’t declare the license of any content on this website. Instead this page provides possibly oversimplified explanations in English language of the most common licenses used. The purpose of this page is purely informative to give you an overview into those licenses.
Below information about Creative Common licenses are adapted from their respective pages on Creative Commons website, with following changes:
- presentation (visual changes)
- addition of “translate” in explanation for Adapt
- change link for “appropriate credit” to examples specific to content by me
- changed some of the links to avoid unnecessary clicks
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Adapted from deed and legal code of CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license by Creative Commons, an international non-profit organization.
You are free to
- Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
- Adapt — remix, transform, translate and build upon the material
Under the following terms
Attribution
You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
ShareAlike
If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.
No additional restrictions
You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
CC By-SA 4.0
Adapted from deed and legal code of CC BY-SA 4.0 license by Creative Commons, an international non-profit organization.
You are free to:
- Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially.
- Adapt — remix, transform, translate and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
Under the following terms
Attribution
You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
ShareAlike
If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.
No additional restrictions
You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
Appropriate Credit
We expect any shareable digital content to provide 4 following information in credit to be acceptable (and ways to make it a great one is mentioned in brackets):
- Title of the work
- Author (with link to their profile or website)
- Link to its source
- License (with link to deed)
The following examples will credit this snippet from my article titled “December 2025 Review”:
There are many new year shows around the city, but I attended to an ice skating club’s show in Sherwood Park. It was a great. There were many talented skaters, some are preparing to compete in national events, while others are 5 year olds with helmets (kinda like bobleheads :).
Great Credit
There are many new year shows around the city, but I attended to an ice skating club’s show in Sherwood Park. It was a great. There were many talented skaters, some are preparing to compete in national events, while others are 5 year olds with helmets (kinda like bobleheads :).
— snippet from “December 2025 Review” by Murteza Yesil is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
- Title: December 2025 Review
- Author: Murteza Yesil (includes link to my website)
- Source: Link is provided along with title.
- License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (includes link to deed)
Good Credit
There are many new year shows around the city, but I attended to an ice skating club’s show in Sherwood Park. It was a great. There were many talented skaters, some are preparing to compete in national events, while others are 5 year olds with helmets (kinda like bobleheads :).
— snippet from “December 2025 Review” by Murteza Yesil is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
- Title: December 2025 Review
- Author: Murteza Yesil (no link to authors page, but thankfully it is easy to find from source link)
- Source: Link is provided along with title
- License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (link leads to license page on author’s website rather than a complete deed, and acceptable)
If you want a shorter variation, I also accept the following as a good credit: from December 2025 Review by Murteza, CC BY-SA 4.0
Inappropriate Credit
Bad Credit
There are many new year shows around the city, but I attended to an ice skating club’s show in Sherwood Park. It was a great. There were many talented skaters, some are preparing to compete in national events, while others are 5 year olds with helmets (kinda like bobleheads :).
This just says “i am lazy so i will make you work for it”.
- Title: Source
- Author: cc by-sa 4.0
- Source: It is there
- License: Wait, I am confused.
Not a credit at all
There are many new year shows around the city, but I attended to an ice skating club’s show in Sherwood Park. It was a great. There were many talented skaters, some are preparing to compete in national events, while others are 5 year olds with helmets (kinda like bobleheads :).
— snippet by Murteza, CC BY-SA 4.0
This is not a horrible credit. This is not a credit at all. Just say “I stole it and don’t care to credit” at this point.
- Title: ?
- Author: one of those people called Murteza
- Source: ?
- License: ?
- CC BY-SA 4.0: probably a new adorable robot that will be featured in the next Star Wars movie.