Open Church’s free resources are made available under 8 different sets of permissions. Each license allows for you to freely use the resources and even freely distribute the resources to others. However, some licenses do not allow commercial use, derivative works, or other conditions. Please read each license carefully.
Public Domain
Public Domain is used for works that are no longer restricted by copyright in any jurisdiction.
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CC0
This license lets copyright- or database-protected content be placed as completely as possible in the public domain because the owner chooses to waive all their interests in their work worldwide.
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Creative Commons Attribution
(CC BY)
This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon a work, even commercially, as long as they credit the creator for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
(CC BY-SA)
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon a work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit the creator and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and open source software licenses. All new works based on the original will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. This is the license used by Wikipedia, and is recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects.
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Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs
(CC BY-ND)
This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to to the work’s creator.
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
(CC BY-NC)
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon a work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge the original creator and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
(CC BY-NC-SA)
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon a work non-commercially, as long as they credit the creator and license their new creations under the identical terms.
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
(CC BY-NC-ND)
This license is the most restrictive of Creative Commons’ six main licenses, only allowing others to download a work and share it with others as long as they credit the creator, but they can’t change the work in any way or use it commercially.
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