Definition of Free Cultural Works

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Definition of Free Cultural Works logo, selected in a logo contest in 2006[1]

The Definition of Free Cultural Works evaluates and recommends compatible free content licenses.

History

The

licenses as successors to his Open Content Project.[2][3]

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

References

  1. ^ Logo contest on freedomdefined.org (2006)
  2. ^ OpenContent is officially closed. And that's just fine. on opencontent.org (30 June 2003, archived)
  3. ^ Creative Commons Welcomes David Wiley as Educational Use License Project Lead by matt (June 23rd, 2003)
  4. ^ a b c "History - Definition of Free Cultural Works". Freedomdefined.org. Retrieved 2012-11-14.
  5. ^ "Revision history of "Definition" - Definition of Free Cultural Works". Freedomdefined.org. Retrieved 2012-11-14.
  6. ^ "Definition of Free Cultural Works". Freedomdefined.org. 2008-12-01. Retrieved 2012-11-14.
  7. ^ "Resolution:Licensing policy". Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 2012-11-14.
  8. ^ "Approved for Free Cultural Works". Creative Commons. 2009-07-24. Retrieved 2012-11-14.
  9. ^ "FDL 1.3 FAQ". Gnu.org. Retrieved 2011-11-07.
  10. ^ "Resolution:Licensing update approval - Wikimedia Foundation".
  11. ^ Wikipedia + CC BY-SA = Free Culture Win! on creativecommons.org by Mike Linksvayer, June 22nd, 2009
  12. ^ 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"
  13. ^ Open Definition 2.1 on opendefinition.org
  14. ^ licenses on opendefinition.com
  15. ^ Creative Commons 4.0 BY and BY-SA licenses approved conformant with the Open Definition by Timothy Vollmer on creativecommons.org (December 27th, 2013)
  16. ^ Open Definition 2.0 released by Timothy Vollmer on creativecommons.org (October 7th, 2014)
  17. ^ licenses on freedomdefined.org
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