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A Creative Commons license is one of several copyright licenses that allow the distribution of copyrighted works. The licenses differ by several combinations that condition the terms of distribution. They were initially released on December 16, 2002 by Creative Commons, a U.S. non-profit corporation founded in 2001.
As of July 2011, Creative Commons licenses have been "ported" over 50 different jurisdictions worldwide. No new ports are being started as preparations for version 4.0 of the license suite begin.
The original set of licenses all grant the "baseline rights", such as the right to distribute the copyrighted work worldwide, without changes, at no charge. The details of each of these licenses depends on the version, and comprises a selection of four conditions:
Mixing and matching these conditions produces sixteen possible combinations, of which eleven are valid Creative Commons licenses and five are not. Of the five invalid combinations, four include both the "nd" and "sa" clauses, which are mutually exclusive; and one includes none of the clauses. Of the eleven valid combinations, the five that lack the "by" clause have been retired because 98% of licensors requested attribution, though they do remain available for reference on the website. This leaves six regularly used licenses:
I'd like to meet the girl I'm gonna marry
I'd like to meet the girl I'm going to see
nothing ever changes in me
but you ain't got nothin, nothin on me
the way everybody loves me I wish you could see
nothin ever change,see me
but I've go to be free
but I've got to be free
oh I've got to be free
Like I said a long time ago
things they come and things they go
something ever changes to me
you make me hungry
then you make me see
oh how happy my life can be but
oh nothin ever change in me
I've go to be free
oh I've got to be free
oh I've got to be free-hee
oh I've got to be free-he