The GNU General Public License was written by Richard Stallman in 1989 for the GNU project (a free operating system with free applications). The GNU is the first copyleft license. Copyleft license offers the distributing of free software an any modified or extended versions of the software has to be free as well under the same license. Information on how to modify and reproduce the software must be available to the people that receives the software(source code).
The Creative Commons Licenses (also know as CC) allows you to combined 4 different baseline rights for non-commercial use for free worldwide.
The four different baselines:
Attribution- People can copy, distribute, display and perform the work only if they give the author credit.
Non-commercial- People can copy, distribute, display, and perform the work for non-commercial uses.
No Derivative work- people can copy, distribute, display, and perform the work, but can not base their work on it.
Share-alike- People can bases their work on it only under a license similar to the original work.
Differences:
The Creative Commons Licenses allows you to customise your license with 4 options to best suit you, while the GNU does not give you the option to do this.
The Creative Commons Licenses allows you to have other licenses with it that can allow you to make a profit, while the General Public License does not allow you to do this.
With the General Public License you need to give the source code with the software to allow people to recreate or modify the software while with the Creative Commons Licenses people can use your work only if they give the author.
The GNU General Public License is only for computer software where as the Creative Commons Licenses is for videos/films, art, books, website ect.
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