12 Combining CC Licenses
Chapter Purpose
This chapter introduces the complexity around combining CC licenses and offers links to further details about these.
Combining CC licenses
When adapting an open textbook (or other OER), you may want to incorporate other people’s works into your adaptation. In order to do that, you must ensure that any existing licenses on the work you’re adapting or including are compatible with each other.
For example, as explained in Chapter 9, the CC BY license is the least restrictive and is compatible with all of the other CC licenses. However, if you want to include a work that has a CC BY-SA license, you must use that same license with your adaptation (which may conflict with other licenses already attached to the work).
Example
Since this Cascadia Guide is adapted from a work that is CC BY-NC-SA licensed, this book must also be CC BY-NC-SA licensed, even if there is original Cascadia content included that might by itself be licensed differently.
Creative Commons provides more information about CC BY-SA license compatibility on this page.
For further help, you can use the use the Creative Commons Choose a License tool or the Wiki/cc license compatibility chart (pictured below), or contact one of TCC’s OER Librarians.
Attributions
This chapter contains material from:
Getting Started with Pressbooks at TCC by TCC OER Librarian is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
That chapter contains The Creative Commons license definitions and images, copied from Creative Commons and are used under a CC BY 4.0 license).
