Image License Information

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No Copyright

Good choice for sharing with scientists.

This license releases your work into the public domain, so others can copy, modify, distribute and perform your work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission or giving you credit. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.

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Attribution

Good choice for sharing with scientists.

This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation.

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Attribution-NonCommercial

Good choice for sharing with scientists.

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don't have to license their derivative works on the same terms.

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Attribution-ShareAlike

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use.

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Attribution-NoDerivs

This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you. View License

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Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.

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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

This license is the most restrictive of the six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can't change them in any way or use them commercially.

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No license (all rights reserved)

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