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The Creative Commons licenses do not restrict field or purpose of use. Local laws about defamation, etc., may do so, depending on the nature of the downstream use. For example, if someone edits a CC-l …

The simplest answer is that you are the copyright holder, and Stack Exchange's license to your work is not exclusive, so you have unlimited rights to use your own work however you please. You cannot g …

You may charge money for your software, though you must distribute your software under CC BY-SA 4.0 terms to anyone who buys it. The Creative Commons Non-Commercial (NC) licenses prohibit commercial u …

You are broadly correct that if your program includes CC BY-SA code from someone else, you must license the entire program under CC BY-SA. Note that this doesn't actually force source disclosure -- un …

You are correct that re-licensing virtually always requires the permission of the copyright holder. This was a rather exceptional case. All material on Wikipedia used to be under the license GFDL v1.2 …

In copyright law, expression is copyrightable, and ideas are not copyrightable. In particular, expression is copyrightable only insofar as that expression is distinct from the idea is expresses. This …

The Creative Commons organization has a page on Legal Music For Videos which states (emphasis mine): Under CC licenses, synching the music to images amounts to transforming the music, so you can’t …

For point #1, I'd say generally that yes, your game is a derivative, and would need to be licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0 as well. Fictional characters are protected under copyright, and reuse of those ch …

The CC ShareAlike terms merely say that whenever you do make a derivative work of the image, distribution of that derivative work must be under ShareAlike (or CC-approved ShareAlike-compatible) terms. …

Creating and distributing similar emoji, after you have seen the original images, is surely a derivative work under copyright law, which requires permission from the original copyright holder. The ima …

In brief, item #1 is incorrect, and item #2 is broadly correct, with possible exceptions. You may release a copyrighted work under any number of licenses independently and simultaneously. The fact th …

The binaries are derivative of the source, so if you choose to distribute them, you must do so under the terms of the CC BY-NC-SA. If you choose to publish source code that is derivative of CC BY-NC-S …