A Creative Commons license assigned to your resource signals and invites others to transform and adapt your materials to their own contexts.
In the spirit of sharing and openness, it is highly encouraged that you consider assigning to your resources a Creative Commons license, as long as you have the permission and right to do so.
Contributors to the Sandbox are given the following Creative Commons licenses as options when selecting a license to assign to their resources:
CC Attribution License CC-BY: This license allows others to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, as long as they attribute you as the original work's creator when they do.
CC Attribution-ShareAlike License CC-BY-SA: This license allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon your work, as long as 1) they attribute you as the original work's creator, and, 2) they license their new works under the same license (CC-BY-SA) when they do.
CC Attribution-NonCommercial License CC-BY-NC: This license allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon your work, as long as 1) they attribute you as the original work's creator, and, 2) they are doing so non-commercially (i.e., without profiting financially) when they do.
CC Attribution-NoDerivs License CC-BY-ND: This license allows others to redistribute your work, as long as 1) they attribute you as the work's creator, and, 2) the work is distributed unchanged and in whole when they do.
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License CC-BY-NC-SA: This license allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon your work, as long as 1) they attribute you as the original work’s creator, 2) they are doing so non-commercially (i.e., without profiting financially), and, 3) they license their new works under the same license (CC-BY-NC-SA) when they do.
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License CC-BY-NC-ND: This license allows others to redistribute your work, as long as 1) they attribute you as the original work’s creator, 2) they are doing so non-commercially (i.e., without profiting financially), and, 3) the work is distributed unchanged and in whole when they do.
More information about each license, as well as links to each license deed and legal code, can be found on the Creative Commons website.
See also the ACRL Framework Sandbox Community Guidelines.