Creative Commons License - Retired Licenses

Retired Licenses

Due to either disuse or criticism, a number of previously offered Creative Commons licenses have since been retired, and are no longer recommended for new works. The retired licenses include all licenses lacking the Attribution element other than CC0, as well as the following four licenses:

• Developing Nations License: a Developing Nations license, which only applies to countries deemed by the World Bank as a "non-high-income economy". Full copyright restrictions apply to people in other countries.
• Sampling: parts of the work can be used for any purpose other than advertising, but the whole work cannot be copied or modified
• Sampling Plus: parts of the work can be copied and modified for any purpose other than advertising, and the entire work can be copied for noncommercial purposes
• NonCommercial Sampling Plus: the whole work or parts of the work can be copied and modified for noncommercial purposes