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Licenses

From Definition of Free Cultural Works
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License Copyleft Modifiability Attribution Worldwide applicability
Against DRM ? ? ? ?
CC BY no no yes national adaptations
CC BY-SA yes no yes national adaptations
Design Science yes yes no same license (English version)
Free Art License yes no yes exact translations
GNU FDL yes yes no same license (English version)
GNU GPL yes yes no same license (English version)

Current draft

Tentatively, the following licenses are known to meet the criteria set out by the definition:

In addition, works in the public domain are also free content as per the definition.

To be verified:

Controversial:

  • IANG license - seeks to enforce lots of things that are outside of the copyright realm (like organization scheme, right of developers to have a voice in the development process, etc.)