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Summario

Iste documento defini "obras cultural libre" como obras o expressiones que pote esser liberemente studiate, applicate, copiate e/o modificate, per quicunque, pro qualcunque scopo. Illo etiam describe certe restrictiones permissibile que respecta o protege iste libertates essential. Le definition distingue inter obras libere, e licentias libere le quales pote esser usate pro legalmente proteger le stato de un obra libere. Le definition mesme non es un licentia; illo es un instrumento pro determinar si un obra o licentia deberea esser considerate "libere".

Preambulo

Le avantiamentos social e technologic rende possibile que un parte de plus in plus grande del humanitate accede a, crea, modifica, publica e distribue varie generes de obras - materiales artistic, scientific e educational, software, articulos - in breve: toto que pote esser representate in forma digital. Multe communitates se ha formate pro exercitar iste nove possibilitates e crear un abundantia de obras collectivemente re-usabile.

Le majoritate del autores, non importa lor campo de activitate, non importa lor stato de amateur o professional, ha un interesse real in favorar un ecosystema in le qual le obras pote esser diffundite, re-usate e derivate in modos creative. Quanto plus facile il es re-usar e derivar obras, tanto plus ric deveni nostre culturas.

Pro assecurar le functionamento gratiose de iste ecosystema, le obras de autorato debe esser libere, e per libertate nos vole dicer:

  • le libertate de usar le obra e fruer del beneficios de usar lo
  • le libertate de studiar le obra e de applicar le cognoscentia acquirite ab illo
  • le libertate de facer e redistribuer copias, in integritate o in parte, del information o expression
  • le libertate de facer modificationes e meliorationes, e de distribuer obras derivate

Si le autores non interprende action, lor obras es coperite per le leges existente de copyright, le quales gravemente limita lo que alteros pote e non pote facer. Le autores pote render lor obras libere per seliger inter un numero de documentos legal cognoscite como licentias. Pro un autor, optar pro poner su obra sub un licentia libere non vole dicer que ille/-a perde tote su derectos, sed illo da a omnes le libertates supra enumerate.

Il es importante que omne obra que assere esser libere provide, practicamente e sin risco, del libertates prenominate. Es pro isto que nos da in lo sequente un precise definition de libertate pro licentias e pro obras autorate.

Identification de obras cultural libere

Isto es le Definition de obras cultural libere, e quando tu describe tu obra, nos te incoragia de facer referentia a iste definition, per exemplo, "Isto es un obra licentiate liberemente, como explicate in le Definition de obras cultural libere". Si non te place le termino "obra cultural libere", tu pote usar le termino generic "contento libere", o referer in su loco a un del movimentos existente que exprime libertates similar in contextos plus specific. Nos etiam te incoragia de usar le logotypos e buttones de obras cultural libere, le quales es in leN dominio public.

Per favor sia avisate que tal identification non de facto confere le derectos describite in iste definition; pro render tu obra vermente libere, es necessari que illo usa un del licentias de cultura libere o que illo sia in le dominio public.

Nos dissuade le uso de altere terminos pro identificar obras cultural libere le quales non communica un clar definition de libertate, como "contento aperte" e "accesso aperte". Iste terminos es frequentemente usate pro referer a contento que es disponibile sub terminos "minus restrictice" que illos del leges existente de copyright, o mesmo pro obras que es simplemente "disponibile in le web".

Definition de licentias cultural libere

Licenses are legal instruments through which the owner of certain legal rights may transfer these rights to third parties. Free Culture Licenses do not take any rights away -- they are always optional to accept, and if accepted, they grant freedoms which copyright law alone does not provide. When accepted, they never limit or reduce existing exemptions in copyright laws.

Libertates essential

In order to be recognized as "free" under this definition, a license must grant the following freedoms without limitation:

  • The freedom to use and perform the work: The licensee must be allowed to make any use, private or public, of the work. For kinds of works where it is relevant, this freedom should include all derived uses ("related rights") such as performing or interpreting the work. There must be no exception regarding, for example, political or religious considerations.
  • The freedom to study the work and apply the information: The licensee must be allowed to examine the work and to use the knowledge gained from the work in any way. The license may not, for example, restrict "reverse engineering".
  • The freedom to redistribute copies: Copies may be sold, swapped or given away for free, as part of a larger work, a collection, or independently. There must be no limit on the amount of information that can be copied. There must also not be any limit on who can copy the information or on where the information can be copied.
  • The freedom to distribute derivative works: In order to give everyone the ability to improve upon a work, the license must not limit the freedom to distribute a modified version (or, for physical works, a work somehow derived from the original), regardless of the intent and purpose of such modifications. However, some restrictions may be applied to protect these essential freedoms or the attribution of authors (see below).

Restrictiones permissibile

Not all restrictions on the use or distribution of works impede essential freedoms. In particular, requirements for attribution, for symmetric collaboration (i.e., "copyleft"), and for the protection of essential freedom are considered permissible restrictions.

Definition de obras cultural libere

In order to be considered free, a work must be covered by a Free Culture License, or its legal status must provide the same essential freedoms enumerated above. It is not, however, a sufficient condition. Indeed, a specific work may be non-free in other ways that restrict the essential freedoms. These are the additional conditions in order for a work to be considered free:

  • Availability of source data: Where a final work has been obtained through the compilation or processing of a source file or multiple source files, all underlying source data should be available alongside the work itself under the same conditions. This can be the score of a musical composition, the models used in a 3D scene, the data of a scientific publication, the source code of a computer application, or any other such information.
  • Use of a free format: For digital files, the format in which the work is made available should not be protected by patents, unless a world-wide, unlimited and irrevocable royalty-free grant is given to make use of the patented technology. While non-free formats may sometimes be used for practical reasons, a free format copy must be available for the work to be considered free.
  • No technical restrictions: The work must be available in a form where no technical measures are used to limit the freedoms enumerated above.
  • No other restrictions or limitations: The work itself must not be covered by legal restrictions (patents, contracts, etc.) or limitations (such as privacy rights) which would impede the freedoms enumerated above. A work may make use of existing legal exemptions to copyright (in order to cite copyrighted works), though only the portions of it which are unambiguously free constitute a free work.

In other words, whenever the user of a work cannot legally or practically exercise his or her basic freedoms, the work cannot be considered and should not be called "free."

Lectura ulterior

  • See Licenses for discussion of individual licenses, and whether they meet this definition or not.
  • See History for acknowledgments and background on this definition.
  • See the FAQ for some questions and answers.
  • See Portal:Index for topic-specific pages about free cultural works.

Versiones

New versions of this definition shall be released as soon as a consensus (achieved directly or through a vote, as per the authoring process) has developed around suggested changes. Numbering shall be 0.x for initial draft releases, 1.x, 2.x .. for major releases, x.1, x.2 .. for minor releases. A minor release is made when the text is modified in ways which do not have an impact on the scope of existing or hypothetical licenses covered by this definition.