Open license
An open license or free license is a license that allows others to re-use an author's work as they wish. Without such a license, such use is generally prohibited by copyright law or a closed license.
Creative Commons licenses are one of the most popular open licenses.
Licenses
By type of license
- Public domain licenses
- Creative Commons CC0
- WTFPL
- Unlicense
- Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)[1]
- Permissive licenses
- BSD License
- MIT License
- Mozilla Public License (file-based permissive copyleft)
- Creative Commons Attribution
- Copyleft & patentleft 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
- Open-source software
- The Open Source Definition
- Open Content
- Open Content License
- Open Publication License
- Open-source hardware
- Open database
- Creative Commons v4
- Open Database Licence
By authors
- Creative Commons
- Free Software Foundation
- Open Source Initiative
- 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)
- European Union
- European Union Public Licence
Related pages
- Open content
- Openness
References
- PDDL 1.0 on opendatacommons.org
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