Open Educational Resources are subject to Creative Commons Licensing.
Creative Commons Licensing offers six following types of license:
- Attribution (BY): Allow to copy, adapt, modify, share the work as long as the original creators are credited for any purposes.
- Attribution (BY)-Share Alike (SA): All rights as Attribution (BY) license and new creations have to be licensed under same terms as the original work.
- Attribution (BY)- No Derives (ND): Allow to copy, share but keep the work unchanged and in whole for any purposes.
- Attribution (BY) - Non-commercial (NC): Allow to copy, adapt, modify, share the work for non-commercial purposes only.
- Attribution (BY) - Non-commercial (NC) - Share Alike (SA): All rights as Attribution (BY)-Share Alike (SA) license but for non-commercial purposes only.
- Attribution (BY) - Non-commercial (NC) - No Derives (ND): All rights as Attribution (BY) - No Derives (ND) license but for non-commercial purposes only
See more in detail at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Notice: Not all OERs use the same licensing restriction. It is important to check the permissions of the OER before using them to ensure compliance with the terms.