🆚 Creative Commons License vs. GNU License
- 📈 Creative Commons License is much more popular than GNU License.
- 🌎 Creative Commons License is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Spain.
- 🌍 GNU License is more popular in Seychelles, Malta, and Paraguay.
Creative Commons License
GNU LicenseType
About
Creative Commons (CC) licenses are a set of standardized copyright licenses that let creators share their works with the public while clearly defining how others may use, remix, or redistribute them under specific conditions.
They offer distinct permissions such as Attribution (CC BY) which lets others use and build on a work with credit, Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) requiring adaptations to carry the same license, Attribution-NoDerivatives (CC BY-ND) allowing redistribution without changes, and Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) variants that restrict commercial use.
The GNU General Public Licenses are a family of free, copyleft software licenses created to guarantee users the freedom to run, study, share, and modify software while ensuring those freedoms are preserved when the software is distributed.
They require that anyone who distributes GPL-licensed software or derivative works also provide access to the corresponding source code under the same GPL terms, prohibit adding further restrictions beyond the license, and permit commercial use without extra fees.
Headquarters
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Licenses category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Licenses category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Licenses category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Licenses category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Licenses category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Licenses category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Licenses category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in France in the Licenses category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Licenses category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Italy in the Licenses category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Apache License
BSD License
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,371,595 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.