Editing Creative Commons license (section)

=== Six regularly used licenses ===
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The six licenses in most frequent use are shown in the following table. Among them, those accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation – the public domain dedication and two attribution (BY and BY-SA) licenses – allow the sharing and remixing (creating [[derivative works]]), including for commercial use, so long as attribution is given.<ref name="Creative Commons-2" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=November 16, 2009 |title=Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 United States |url=https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100224022605/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ |archive-date=February 24, 2010 |access-date=February 22, 2010 |publisher=[[Creative Commons]] |df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name="Creative Commons" />
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! scope="col" style="width:20em" | License name
! scope="col" | Abbreviation
! scope="col" | Icon
! scope="col" | [[Attribution (copyright)|Attribution]] required
! scope="col" | Allows [[remix culture]]
! scope="col" | Allows commercial use
! scope="col" | Allows [[Free Cultural Works]]
! scope="col" | Meets the [[Open Knowledge Foundation|OKF]] '[[Open Definition]]'
|-
! scope="row" | Attribution
| CC {{visible anchor|BY}} || [[File:CC-BY icon.svg|alt=CC-BY icon|88px]] || {{Maybe|Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}}
|-
! scope="row" | Attribution-ShareAlike
| CC {{visible anchor|BY-SA}} || [[File:CC BY-SA icon.svg|alt=CC-BY-SA icon|88px]] || {{Maybe|Yes}} || {{yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}}
|-
! scope="row" | Attribution-NonCommercial
| CC {{visible anchor|BY-NC}} || [[File:Cc-by-nc icon.svg|alt=CC-by-NC icon|88px]] || {{Maybe|Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}}
|-
! scope="row" | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
| CC {{visible anchor|BY-NC-SA}} || [[File:Cc-by-nc-sa icon.svg|alt=CC-BY-NC-SA icon|88px]] || {{Maybe|Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}}
|-
! scope="row" | Attribution-NoDerivatives
| CC {{visible anchor|BY-ND}} || [[File:Cc-by-nd icon.svg|alt=CC-BY-ND icon|88px]] || {{Maybe|Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}}
|-
! scope="row" | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
| CC {{visible anchor|BY-NC-ND}} || [[File:Cc-by-nc-nd icon.svg|alt=CC-BY-NC-ND icon|88px]] || {{Maybe|Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}}
|}