Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organisation founded in 2003 that makes standard licenses and tools to enable creators to make their works available to others with more flexible terms. Content you create under a CC licence is able to be remixed, shared and used commercially by others, making content more freely available in the commons.
Flickr is one website that allows users the option of posting their content online under a CC license. As you can see from the below photo Sunny Side Up by codepoet, the photo has "Some Rights Reserved" with the images for which CC license the photo is licensed under.
The legend for the licenses are as follows (taken from CC):
Therefore, we can see that the photo Sunny Side Up which is posted above, has a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license (the same as Nine Inch Nails' album Ghosts I-IV, covered in more detail in 7: Tute Task).
The creator of Creative Commons, Lawrence Lessig, was inspired by GNU Public License (GPL), a legal document that controls what you can and can't do with Free Software. The name Free Software has since been replaced with Open Source.
There are thousands of examples of open source software (OSS) available online, all of which are free to download and edit. Some of the most well known and most used examples of OSS are Mozilla Firefox, Linux and Open Office.
Not everyone can afford to have a Microsoft or a Mac operating system though, so open source software is a great alternative. Also, some people prefer the OSS that is available so they can alter it to work the way they need and want it to. OSS is about a community collaboration where everyone works together for a better outcome for all.
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