The Canadian HSS Commons offers two main types of licenses to share materials on the site: the Non-Exclusive Distribution License and Creative Commons licenses.
The Non-Exclusive license grants the Canadian HSS Commons the non-exclusive right to reproduce, distribute, publicly display, and/or change the medium or format of your submission (including the abstract and other metadata) worldwide in print and electronic format and in any medium, including but not limited to audio or video. This means that your publication will be available on the site, but people will need to contact the rights owner if they want to share or modify it.
Creative Commons licenses grant public permission to use and share creative work if certain conditions are met. Here are the Creative Commons license conditions, drawn from https://creativecommons.org/use-remix/cc-licenses/:
Attribution (BY)
All CC licenses require that others who use your work in any way must give you credit the way you request, but not in a way that suggests you endorse them or their use. If they want to use your work without giving you credit or for endorsement purposes, they must get your permission first.
ShareAlike (SA)
You let others copy, distribute, display, perform, and modify your work, as long as they distribute any modified work on the same terms. If they want to distribute modified works under other terms, they must get your permission first.
NonCommercial (NC)
You let others copy, distribute, display, perform, and (unless you have chosen NoDerivatives) modify and use your work for any purpose other than commercially unless they get your permission first.
NoDerivatives (ND)
You let others copy, distribute, display and perform only original copies of your work. If they want to modify your work, they must get your permission first.
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