licensing

A piece of work that has been licensed under the copyright law means it has been restricted to the public’s use; as no one will able to use, copy, edit, publish or distribute the original owner’s work. In order for one to use a copyrighted piece, they must get permission from the original creator; otherwise this will be known as plagiarism. If this be the case, the owner is given the chance to proceed a court hearing.
Sometimes while browsing the net, one may come across an image which may not show the creators license. In this case the best thing to do is to go to the original placement of this source. If the license is still not found, one must take precautions as it most likely is under the copyright law; and is therefore safer not to continue to use this source.
As long as others ask your permission to use your work, you have the ability to choose who you want to use it, and how you want it to be used.

Unlike the copyright license, creative commons gives you the opportunity to share your work with others enabling them to distribute copy and modify their own version. You may think; what happens to my rights? Creative commons gives you a variety of different licenses to choose from to fit your needs; for example: whether it be choosing for people to tweak, redistribute, and use your work commercially, to choosing for people to only download and pass on your work without it being changed in any way. This shows that by using the creative commons license, you still hold certain restrictions over your work.
The advantages of this particular license in my opinion, is being able to share your creativity with others who can benefit and learn new things from it, and at the same time still having the authority as to how you want it to be used. This can help students, beginners as well as many others as it may give them the inspiration they need as well as a new experience; especially within an open source platform (in my opinion).

The GNU general public license (GPL) is a free copyleft license, which unlike copyright the GNU GPL allows users to change and modify an author’s work without restrictions. Copyleft is most known for its use within most open source software’s; when saying free software; it doesn’t mean free price, but means freedom – for the user of the product. Copyleft gives the user permission to edit, copy, modify and distribute modified versions of the work. Although people will be able to modify previous versions, the produced work must still be under the copyleft license to ensure that it is still open for others to use; this also includes distributing the changes made with the programme.