Free license
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A free license is a license agreement which contains conditions permitted to the user from the holder on a specific list of uses for his work, which gives him four major freedoms.
Without a special license, these uses are prohibited by the laws of copyright.
Most free licenses are worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, and perpetual (see Copyright durations).
Free licenses are often the basis of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding projects.
The invention of the term "free license" and the focus on the rights of users were connected to the traditions of the hacker culture of the 1970s and the social and political free software movement (since 1980). Since then, ideas of free licenses spread into different spheres of society. Open source, free culture, anticopyright, Wikimedia Foundation projects, and pirate parties are connected with free licenses.
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Philosophy[edit]
Classification and licenses[edit]
By freedom[edit]
- Agreement, which is related to the public domain
- Permissive licenses
- Copyleft licenses
- GNU GPL, LGPL (weaker copyleft), AGPL (stronger copyleft)
- Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
- GFDL
By type of content[edit]
- Free software licences
- Free content licenses
- Open-source hardware licenses
- Database licenses (Creative Commons v4 and Open Database Licence)
- Open patent licenses
By authors[edit]
- Free Software Foundation
- Creative Commons
- Microsoft
- Open Data Commons from Open Knowledge Foundation
- Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
- Attribution License (ODC-By)
- Open Database License (ODC-ODbL)
Problems[edit]
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
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
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