EOL Licenses

Licenses supported by the Encyclopedia of Life

	License	Explanation	EOL TEXT	EOL Images, Media
pd	Public Domain	Anyone can reproduce, distribute, modify, build upon, or otherwise exploit your content for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and in any way, with or without attribution to the original source.
CC-BY	Creative Commons Attribution	Anyone can copy, transmit, and reuse your content, and remix or adapt the information for any purpose, including commercial uses, as long as attribution regarding the source of the information is maintained. For more information see the Creative Commons Attribution legal code
CC-BY-SA	Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike	As with CC-BY but anyone who uses your content must make it and any derivatives of your work available under a compatible license. For more information see the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike legal code
CC-BY-NC	Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial	As with CC-BY but your content cannot be used for any commercial purpose without your explicit permission. For more information see the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial legal code
CC-BY-NC-SA	Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike	As with CC-BY but your content cannot be used for any commercial purpose AND people who use your content non-commercially must make it and any derivatives of your work available under a compatible license. For more information see the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike legal code