Editing Creative Commons license (section)

=== Retired licenses ===
Due to either disuse or criticism, a number of previously offered Creative Commons licenses have since been retired,<ref name="Creative Commons-3" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Lessig |first=Lawrence |author-link=Lawrence Lessig |date=June 4, 2007 |title=Retiring standalone DevNations and one Sampling license |url=https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7520 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070707023305/http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7520 |archive-date=July 7, 2007 |access-date=July 5, 2007 |publisher=[[Creative Commons]] |df=mdy-all}}</ref> and are no longer recommended for new works. The retired licenses include all licenses lacking the Attribution element other than CC0, as well as the following four licenses:
* '''Developing Nations License''': a license which only applies to [[developing countries]] deemed to be "non-high-income economies" by the [[World Bank]]. Full copyright restrictions apply to people in other countries.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Developing Nations License |url=https://creativecommons.org/licenses/devnations/2.0/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120412101407/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/devnations/2.0/ |archive-date=April 12, 2012 |access-date=April 9, 2012 |publisher=[[Creative Commons]] |df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* '''Sampling''': parts of the work can be used for any purpose other than advertising, but the whole work cannot be copied or modified<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sampling 1.0 |url=https://creativecommons.org/licenses/sampling/1.0/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316011404/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sampling/1.0/ |archive-date=March 16, 2012 |access-date=April 9, 2012 |publisher=[[Creative Commons]] |df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* '''Sampling Plus''': parts of the work can be copied and modified for any purpose other than advertising, and the entire work can be copied for noncommercial purposes<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 13, 2009 |title=Sampling Plus 1.0 |url=https://creativecommons.org/licenses/sampling+/1.0/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120411100732/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sampling+/1.0/ |archive-date=April 11, 2012 |access-date=April 9, 2012 |publisher=[[Creative Commons]] |df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* '''NonCommercial Sampling Plus''': the whole work or parts of the work can be copied and modified for non-commercial purposes<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 13, 2009 |title=NonCommercial Sampling Plus 1.0 |url=https://creativecommons.org/licenses/nc-sampling+/1.0/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325110847/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/nc-sampling+/1.0/ |archive-date=March 25, 2012 |access-date=April 9, 2012 |publisher=[[Creative Commons]] |df=mdy-all}}</ref>