Definition of Free Cultural Works
The Definition of Free Cultural Works evaluates and recommends compatible free content licenses.
History
The
Therefore, Creative Commons'
free content. The first draft of the Definition of Free Cultural Works was published 2 April 2006.[5] The 1.0 and 1.1 versions were published in English and translated into several languages.[6]
The Definition of Free Cultural Works is used by the Wikimedia Foundation.[7] In 2008, the Attribution and Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons licenses were marked as "Approved for Free Cultural Works".[8]
Following in June 2009,
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike as main license, additionally to the previously used GNU Free Documentation License (which was made compatible[9]).[10] An improved license compatibility with the greater free content ecosystem was given as reason for the license change.[11][12]
In October 2014, the
Open Data Commons Open Database License
(ODbL).
"Free cultural works" approved licenses
- Against DRM
- BSD-like non-copyleft licenses
- CERN Open Hardware License
- CC0
- Creative Commons Attribution(CC BY)
- Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike(CC BY-SA)
- Design Science License
- Free Art License
- FreeBSD Documentation License
- GNU Free Documentation License (without invariant sections)[17]
- GNU General Public License
- MirOS Licence
- MIT License
- Open Publication License
References
- ^ Logo contest on freedomdefined.org (2006)
- ^ OpenContent is officially closed. And that's just fine. on opencontent.org (30 June 2003, archived)
- ^ Creative Commons Welcomes David Wiley as Educational Use License Project Lead by matt (June 23rd, 2003)
- ^ a b c "History - Definition of Free Cultural Works". Freedomdefined.org. Retrieved 2012-11-14.
- ^ "Revision history of "Definition" - Definition of Free Cultural Works". Freedomdefined.org. Retrieved 2012-11-14.
- ^ "Definition of Free Cultural Works". Freedomdefined.org. 2008-12-01. Retrieved 2012-11-14.
- ^ "Resolution:Licensing policy". Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 2012-11-14.
- ^ "Approved for Free Cultural Works". Creative Commons. 2009-07-24. Retrieved 2012-11-14.
- ^ "FDL 1.3 FAQ". Gnu.org. Retrieved 2011-11-07.
- ^ "Resolution:Licensing update approval - Wikimedia Foundation".
- ^ Wikipedia + CC BY-SA = Free Culture Win! on creativecommons.org by Mike Linksvayer, June 22nd, 2009
- ^ Licensing update rolled out in all Wikimedia wikis on wikimedia.org by Erik Moeller on June 30th, 2009 "Perhaps the most significant reason to choose CC-BY-SA as our primary content license was to be compatible with many of the other admirable endeavors out there to share and develop free knowledge"
- ^ Open Definition 2.1 on opendefinition.org
- ^ licenses on opendefinition.com
- ^ Creative Commons 4.0 BY and BY-SA licenses approved conformant with the Open Definition by Timothy Vollmer on creativecommons.org (December 27th, 2013)
- ^ Open Definition 2.0 released by Timothy Vollmer on creativecommons.org (October 7th, 2014)
- ^ licenses on freedomdefined.org
External links
- Definition of Free Cultural Works on freedomdefined.org
- 2006 Announcement on freedomdefined.org
- Understanding Free Cultural Works on creativecommons.org
- Free content defined on WikiEducator
- FreeCulturalWorks on DeviantArt
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