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69 relations: Apache License, Attribution (copyright), Bruce Perens, BSD licenses, Common Development and Distribution License, Copyleft, Copyright, Creative Commons, Creative Commons license, Criticism of copyright, Database, Debian Free Software Guidelines, Definition of Free Cultural Works, Derivative work, Duke University, Eric S. Raymond, European Union, European Union Public Licence, Free and open-source software, Free Art License, Free content, Free Software Foundation, Free software movement, Free-culture movement, Free-software license, GNU Affero General Public License, GNU Free Documentation License, GNU General Public License, GNU Lesser General Public License, Grant (law), Hacker culture, Intellectual property, License, License compatibility, License proliferation, Microsoft, MIT License, Mozilla Public License, O'Reilly Media, Open Content License, Open data, Open Database License, Open Knowledge Foundation, Open Publication License, Open Source Initiative, Open-source hardware, Open-source license, Open-source software, Open-source software development, Open-source-software movement, ... Expand index (19 more) »
- Copyright licenses
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Apache License
The Apache License is a permissive free software license written by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Free license and Apache License are free and open-source software licenses.
See Free license and Apache License
Attribution (copyright)
Attribution, in copyright law, is acknowledgment as credit to the copyright holder or author of a work.
See Free license and Attribution (copyright)
Bruce Perens
Bruce Perens (born around 1958) is an American computer programmer and advocate in the free software movement.
See Free license and Bruce Perens
BSD licenses
BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and distribution of covered software. Free license and BSD licenses are free and open-source software licenses.
See Free license and BSD licenses
Common Development and Distribution License
The Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) is a free and open-source software license, produced by Sun Microsystems, based on the Mozilla Public License (MPL). Free license and Common Development and Distribution License are free and open-source software licenses.
See Free license and Common Development and Distribution License
Copyleft
Copyleft is the legal technique of granting certain freedoms over copies of copyrighted works with the requirement that the same rights be preserved in derivative works. Free license and Copyleft are copyright licenses and free and open-source software licenses.
Copyright
A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time.
See Free license and Copyright
Creative Commons
Creative Commons (CC) is an American non-profit organization and international network devoted to educational access and expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. Free license and creative Commons are copyright licenses.
See Free license and Creative Commons
Creative Commons license
A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted "work". Free license and Creative Commons license are computer law.
See Free license and Creative Commons license
Criticism of copyright
Criticism of copyright, or anti-copyright sentiment, is a dissenting view of the current state of copyright law or copyright as a concept.
See Free license and Criticism of copyright
Database
In computing, a database is an organized collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system (DBMS), the software that interacts with end users, applications, and the database itself to capture and analyze the data.
Debian Free Software Guidelines
The Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) is a set of guidelines that the Debian Project uses to determine whether a software license is a free software license, which in turn is used to determine whether a piece of software can be included in Debian. Free license and Debian Free Software Guidelines are free and open-source software licenses.
See Free license and Debian Free Software Guidelines
Definition of Free Cultural Works
The Definition of Free Cultural Works evaluates and recommends compatible free content licenses.
See Free license and Definition of Free Cultural Works
Derivative work
In copyright law, a derivative work is an expressive creation that includes major copyrightable elements of a first, previously created original work (the underlying work).
See Free license and Derivative work
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States.
See Free license and Duke University
Eric S. Raymond
Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, open-source software advocate, and author of the 1997 essay and 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
See Free license and Eric S. Raymond
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
See Free license and European Union
European Union Public Licence
The European Union Public Licence (EUPL) is a free software licence that was written and approved by the European Commission. Free license and European Union Public Licence are computer law and free and open-source software licenses.
See Free license and European Union Public Licence
Free and open-source software
Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software that is available under a license that grants the right to use, modify, and distribute the software, modified or not, to everyone free of charge.
See Free license and Free and open-source software
Free Art License
The Free Art License (FAL) (Licence Art Libre, LAL) is a copyleft license that grants the right to freely copy, distribute, and transform creative works except for computer hardware and software, including for commercial use. Free license and free Art License are free and open-source software licenses.
See Free license and Free Art License
Free content
Free content, libre content, libre information, or free information is any kind of creative work, such as a work of art, a book, a software program, or any other creative content unrestricted by copyright and other legal limitations on use.
See Free license and Free content
Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on October 4, 1985, to support the free software movement, with the organization's preference for software being distributed under copyleft ("share alike") terms, such as with its own GNU General Public License.
See Free license and Free Software Foundation
Free software movement
The free software movement is a social movement with the goal of obtaining and guaranteeing certain freedoms for software users, namely the freedoms to run, study, modify, and share copies of software.
See Free license and Free software movement
Free-culture movement
The free-culture movement is a social movement that promotes the freedom to distribute and modify the creative works of others in the form of free content or open content without compensation to, or the consent of, the work's original creators, by using the Internet and other forms of media.
See Free license and Free-culture movement
Free-software license
A free-software license is a notice that grants the recipient of a piece of software extensive rights to modify and redistribute that software. Free license and free-software license are free and open-source software licenses and terms of service.
See Free license and Free-software license
GNU Affero General Public License
The GNU Affero General Public License (GNU AGPL) is a free, copyleft license published by the Free Software Foundation in November 2007, and based on the GNU GPL version 3 and the Affero General Public License (non-GNU). Free license and GNU Affero General Public License are computer law and free and open-source software licenses.
See Free license and GNU Affero General Public License
GNU Free Documentation License
The GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL or simply GFDL) is a copyleft license for free documentation, designed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for the GNU Project. Free license and GNU Free Documentation License are free and open-source software licenses.
See Free license and GNU Free Documentation License
GNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses, or copyleft, that guarantee end users the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software. Free license and GNU General Public License are free and open-source software licenses.
See Free license and GNU General Public License
GNU Lesser General Public License
The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a free-software license published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Free license and GNU Lesser General Public License are computer law and free and open-source software licenses.
See Free license and GNU Lesser General Public License
Grant (law)
A grant, in law, is a transfer of property, generally from a person or other entity giving the property (the grantor) to a person or entity receiving the property (the grantee).
See Free license and Grant (law)
Hacker culture
The hacker culture is a subculture of individuals who enjoy—often in collective effort—the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming the limitations of software systems or electronic hardware (mostly digital electronics), to achieve novel and clever outcomes.
See Free license and Hacker culture
Intellectual property
Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect.
See Free license and Intellectual property
License
A license (US) or licence (Commonwealth) is an official permission or permit to do, use, or own something (as well as the document of that permission or permit).
License compatibility
License compatibility is a legal framework that allows for pieces of software with different software licenses to be distributed together. Free license and license compatibility are copyright licenses and terms of service.
See Free license and License compatibility
License proliferation
License proliferation is the phenomenon of an abundance of already existing and the continued creation of new software licenses for software and software packages in the FOSS ecosystem. Free license and license proliferation are free and open-source software licenses.
See Free license and License proliferation
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
See Free license and Microsoft
MIT License
The MIT License is a permissive software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the late 1980s. Free license and MIT License are free and open-source software licenses.
See Free license and MIT License
Mozilla Public License
The Mozilla Public License (MPL) is a free and open-source weak copyleft license for most Mozilla Foundation software such as Firefox and Thunderbird. Free license and Mozilla Public License are free and open-source software licenses.
See Free license and Mozilla Public License
O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly Media, Inc. (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) is an American learning company established by Tim O'Reilly provides technical and professional skills development courses via an online learning platform.
See Free license and O'Reilly Media
Open Content License
The Open Content License is a share-alike public copyright license by Open Content Project in 1998.
See Free license and Open Content License
Open data
Open data is data that is openly accessible, exploitable, editable and shared by anyone for any purpose.
See Free license and Open data
Open Database License
The Open Database License (ODbL) is a copyleft license agreement intended to allow users to freely share, modify, and use a database while maintaining this same freedom for others.
See Free license and Open Database License
Open Knowledge Foundation
Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) is a global, non-profit network that promotes and shares information at no charge, including both content and data.
See Free license and Open Knowledge Foundation
Open Publication License
The Open Publication License (OPL) was published by the Open Content Project in 1999 as a public copyright license for documents.
See Free license and Open Publication License
Open Source Initiative
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is the steward of the Open Source Definition, the most widely used standard for open-source software.
See Free license and Open Source Initiative
Open-source hardware
Open-source hardware (OSH, OSHW) consists of physical artifacts of technology designed and offered by the open-design movement.
See Free license and Open-source hardware
Open-source license
Open-source licenses are software licenses that allow content to be used, modified, and shared. Free license and Open-source license are free and open-source software licenses and terms of service.
See Free license and Open-source license
Open-source software
Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose.
See Free license and Open-source software
Open-source software development
Open-source software development (OSSD) is the process by which open-source software, or similar software whose source code is publicly available, is developed by an open-source software project.
See Free license and Open-source software development
Open-source-software movement
The open-source-software movement is a movement that supports the use of open-source licenses for some or all software, as part of the broader notion of open collaboration.
See Free license and Open-source-software movement
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
See Free license and Oxford University Press
Patent
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention. Free license and patent are patent law.
Patentleft
Patentleft is the practice of licensing patents (especially biological patents) for royalty-free use, on the condition that adopters license related improvements they develop under the same terms. Free license and Patentleft are patent law.
See Free license and Patentleft
Permissive software license
A permissive software license, sometimes also called BSD-like or BSD-style license, is a free-software license which instead of copyleft protections, carries only minimal restrictions on how the software can be used, modified, and redistributed, usually including a warranty disclaimer. Free license and permissive software license are free and open-source software licenses.
See Free license and Permissive software license
Pirate Party
Pirate Party is a label adopted by certain political parties around the world.
See Free license and Pirate Party
Prentice Hall
Prentice Hall was a major American educational publisher.
See Free license and Prentice Hall
Proprietary software
Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright and intellectual property law to exclude the recipient from freely sharing the software or modifying it, and—in some cases, as is the case with some patent-encumbered and EULA-bound software—from making use of the software on their own, thereby restricting their freedoms.
See Free license and Proprietary software
Public domain
The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.
See Free license and Public domain
Richard Stallman
Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), also known by his initials, rms, is an American free software movement activist and programmer.
See Free license and Richard Stallman
Shared Source Initiative
The Shared Source Initiative (SSI) is a source-available software licensing scheme launched by Microsoft in May 2001.
See Free license and Shared Source Initiative
Software license
A software license is a legal instrument governing the use or redistribution of software. Free license and software license are terms of service.
See Free license and Software license
Software product liability
Software vendor liability is the issue of product liability for software bugs that cause harm, such as security bugs or bugs causing medical errors.
See Free license and Software product liability
Source code
In computing, source code, or simply code or source, is a plain text computer program written in a programming language.
See Free license and Source code
The Free Software Definition
The Free Software Definition written by Richard Stallman and published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF), defines free software as being software that ensures that the users have freedom in using, studying, sharing and modifying that software. Free license and the Free Software Definition are free and open-source software licenses.
See Free license and The Free Software Definition
The Open Definition
The Open Definition (formerly Open Knowledge Definition) is published by the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) to define openness for any type of data, content, or other knowledge.
See Free license and The Open Definition
The Open Source Definition
The Open Source Definition (OSD) is a document published by the Open Source Initiative.
See Free license and The Open Source Definition
Unlicense
The Unlicense is a public domain equivalent license for software which provides a public domain waiver with a fall-back public-domain-like license, similar to the CC Zero for cultural works.
See Free license and Unlicense
Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., abbreviated WMF, is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, and registered there as a charitable foundation.
See Free license and Wikimedia Foundation
WTFPL
The WTFPL is a permissive free software license. Free license and WTFPL are free and open-source software licenses.
See also
Copyright licenses
- Collective administration of copyrights
- Collective rights management
- Compulsory license
- Copyleft
- Creative Commons
- Extended collective licensing
- Free license
- Grand rights
- Korea Open Government License
- License compatibility
- Mechanical license
- Music licensing
- Open Government Licence
- Public copyright licenses
- Public.Resource.Org
- Rights Managed
- Royalty-free
- Software licensing
- Software relicensing
- The Artist's Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement
- Voluntary collective licensing
Terms of service
- Acceptable use policy
- Clickwrap
- Community standards
- Contract of carriage
- Death and the Internet
- Email privacy
- End-user license agreement
- Free license
- Free-software license
- Internet privacy
- License compatibility
- Multi-licensing
- Open-source license
- Privacy concerns with social networking services
- Privacy policy
- Public-domain-equivalent license
- Service-level agreement
- Shrinkwrap (contract law)
- Site license
- Software license
- Specht v. Netscape Communications Corp.
- Standard form contract
- Step-Saver Data Systems, Inc. v. Wyse Technology
- Terms and Conditions May Apply
- Terms of Service; Didn't Read
- Terms of service
- Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977
References
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