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Attribution
This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. 
Attribution-ShareAlike
This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. This is the license used by Wikipedia. 
Attribution-NoDerivs
This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you. 
Attribution-NonCommercial
This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. 
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. 
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
This license is the most restrictive of the six main Creative Commons licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can't change them in any way or use them commercially.
To distribute a remix, one needs a license from all contributers to the the remix.
For example, if Alice creates a work and releases it under a CC BY-NC license,
and Bob remixes it with a song released under CC BY, then the
resulting remix can only be distributed non-commercially. Bob can distribute his
remix under the terms of any of the three CC licenses with the NonCommercial element
as well as a traditional license that doesn't allow redistribution (provided
that Bob's distribution is non-commercial).
As another example, if Alice releases a work under CC BY-SA and Bob
releases a work under CC BY-NC-SA, then a third-party, say Charlie, cannot
remix those two works together and distribute the remix, because the remix
cannot be distributed under terms that satisfy both CC BY-SA and
CC BY-NC-SA.
FeedForward Collaborative License (FFCL)
This license gives others the right to privately remix and tweak the original author's work;
however it does not give them the right to distribute such remixes
(commercially or otherwise) to anyone except the original author.
This license does not require that collaborators be paid any royalties for
their contribution; however, collaborators have a right to attribution if
the original author chooses to distribute the remixed work.
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