What is a licence

Default licence in AMIS: CC-BY

What licence do I choose for my content: about Creative Commons [CC] licences

Sources and complementary information

What is a licence

A content license is a document that states the freedoms and limitations that you apply to your work – an explanation of what someone can and cannot do with what you make.

The law automatically [when no other licence has been specified] grants you full "copyright" over any creative work you make, including the stories you write, the pictures you draw, the music you record, the photos you take, and the video you capture. This means that unless you say otherwise, nobody may share your work or make changes to it.

Default licence in AMIS: CC-BY

In the case of AMIS, the MINAGRI aims at creating an exchange platform of documents, maps, contacts, directories and all kinds of exchangeable information.  AMIS wants to allow anyone in the world to share and experience the work of its partners (as long as they agree)!

So all content without licensing information is subject to the Creative Common Attribution (CC-BY) license. You are free to distribute and modify the file as long as you attribute its original author(s) or licensor(s). The CC-BY licence is by the following logos.

           ^-BY

What licence do I choose for my content: about Creative Commons [CC] licences

Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright licenses known as Creative Commons licenses. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of other creators.

Six licencing possibilities can be defined combining 4 major permissions:

	Attribution: give credits to the original author. This means that others may share the author's work so long as they credit him/her.
	Non Commercial: prohibiting people from using the content commercially (selling it for example) without authorisation of the author.
	No derivative works: do you want to allow others to make changes (derivatives) to the content without having to ask the author?
	Share alike: if you allow others to make changes to your work, you also need to think about whether or not you will require them to use the same license as you ("Share Alike"). A Share alike condition ensures that the terms (licences) you chose for your original creation are preserved.

The six different licences are summarised below:

	Attribution
	Attribution Share Alike
	Attribution No Derivates
	Attribution Non Commercial
	Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike
	Attribution Non Commercial No Derivates

Sources and complementary information

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licence_(juridique)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_commons

http://creativecommons.org/

http://fr.creativecommons.org/