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Donate to Wikipedia A free license or open license[1][2] is a license agreement which contains conditions permitted to the user from the holder on a specific list of uses for his work,
Wikipedia store which gives him four major freedoms.

Interaction Without a special license, these uses are normally prohibited by the laws of copyright.
Help Most free licenses are worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, and perpetual (see copyright durations).
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Community portal Free licenses are often the basis of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding projects.
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The invention of the term "free license" and the focus on the rights of users were connected to the sharing traditions of the hacker culture of the 1970s public
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domain software ecosystem, the social and political free software movement (since 1980) and the Open source movement (since the 1990s).[3]
Tools These rights were codified by different groups and organizations for different domains in Free Software Definition, Open Source Definition, Debian Free
What links here Software Guidelines, Definition of Free Cultural Works and the Open definition.[1] These definitions were then transformed into licenses, using the copyright as
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legal mechanism. Since then, ideas of free/open licenses spread into different spheres of society.
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Special pages Open source, free culture (unified as Free and open-source movement), anticopyright, Wikimedia Foundation projects, Public Domain advocacy groups and
Permanent link pirate parties are connected with free and open licenses.
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Cite this page 1 Philosophy
2 Classification and licenses
Print/export
2.1 By freedom
Create a book
2.2 By type of content
Download as PDF
Printable version 2.3 By authors
3 Problems
In other projects
4 By countries
Wikimedia Commons 4.1 USA
4.2 European Union
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5 References
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Main articles: Free software movement § Philosophy, and Free culture movement
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Edit links Classification and licenses [ edit ]

By freedom [ edit ]

Agreement, which is related to the public domain

Creative Commons CC0
WTFPL
Unlicense
Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)[4]
Permissive licenses
BSD License Network of licenses (and years of license
creation).
MIT License
Mozilla Public License (file-based permissive copyleft)
Creative Commons Attribution
Copyleft licenses
GNU GPL, LGPL (weaker copyleft), AGPL (stronger copyleft)
Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Mozilla Public License
Common Development and Distribution License
GFDL (without invariant sections)
Free Art License

By type of content [ edit ]

Free software licences

The Free Software Definition
Open Content
Open Content License
Open Publication License
Free content licenses
Definition of Free Cultural Works
Open-source hardware licenses
Database licenses (Creative Commons v4 and Open Database Licence)
Open patent licenses

By authors [ edit ]

Free Software Foundation

Open Source Initiative
Creative Commons
Microsoft
Microsoft Public License
Microsoft Reciprocal License
Open Content Project
Open Data Commons from Open Knowledge Foundation
Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Attribution License (ODC-By)
Open Database License (ODC-ODbL

Problems [ edit ]

License compatibility
License proliferation
Permissive vs. copyleft

By countries [ edit ]

Creative Commons has affiliates in more than 100 jurisdictions all over the world.

USA [ edit ]

European Union [ edit ]

EUPL was created in the European Union.

Germany [ edit ]

Harald Welte created gpl-violations.org

References [ edit ]

1. ^ a b Open Definition 2.1 on opendefinition.org "This essential meaning matches that of “open” with respect to software as in the Open Source Definition and is
synonymous with “free” or “libre” as in the Free Software Definition and Definition of Free Cultural Works."
2. ^ The Open Source Definition
3. ^ Kelty, Christpher M. (2008). "The Cultural Significance of free Software - Two Bits" (PDF). Duke University press - durham and london. p. 99. "Prior to 1998, Free
Software referred either to the Free Software Foundation (and the watchful, micromanaging eye of Stallman) or to one of thousands of different commercial, avocational,
or university-research projects, processes, licenses, and ideologies that had a variety of names: sourceware, freeware, shareware, open software, public domain software,
and so on. The term Open Source, by contrast, sought to encompass them all in one movement."
4. ^ PDDL 1.0 on opendatacommons.org

External links [ edit ]

Various Licenses and Comments about Them - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
License information - Debian
Open Source Licenses
Licenses - Definition of Free Cultural Works
proposed Open Source Hardware (OSHW) Statement of Principles and Definition v1.0

V·T·E Free and open-source software [show]

V·T·E Intellectual property activism [show]

V·T·E Software distribution [show]

V·T·E Creative Commons [hide]

Works and projects Licenses (Public Domain Mark) · Licensed works (Category) · Content directories · Jurisdiction ports

Creative Commons · ccMixter · OpenGameArt.org · Dogmazic · Phlow · Electrobel · Newgrounds Audio portal · Scripped · Mininova · Wikimedia
Major directories
(Commons)

People Lawrence Lessig · Joi Ito

See also Free and open content · Free culture movement

Categories: Free and open-source software licenses Contract law Databases Computer law Copyright licenses Terms of service
Open-source hardware Patent law

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