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This original file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
This original file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.


=== License Classification Icons by Terry Hancock ===
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These are meant to be generic analogs to Creative Commons' "license deed" icons (The CC icons are subject to trademark. I intend these icons to be different enough to avoid any trademark dispute or confusion, but similar enough to facilitate communication). Unlike the CC icons, these do not map to particular detailed license modules, but rather indicate general classes of licenses.
 
So far, these are the only ones I could think of needing for free licenses, but I am interested in hearing suggestions for what additional requirements we ought to have icons for:
 
[[Image:Fd_sq_icon_pd.svg]] "Public Domain" or "No Requirements".
 
[[Image:Fd_sq_icon_by.svg]] "Attribution" requirement.
 
[[Image:Fd_sq_icon_sa.svg]] "Copyleft" or "Share Alike" requirement.
 
[[Image:Fd_sq_icon_sc.svg]] "Source Code" requirement.
 
[[Image:Fd_sq_icon_drm.svg]] "No DRM/TPM" requirement.
 
[[Image:Fd_sq_icon_hard.svg]] "Production Copyleft" (a proposal for effective copyleft on hardware designs)
 
I also have some "non-free" icons for license comparison purposes, along with color-coded versions of the above (black="null", green="maximal individual freedom", blue="maximal maintenance of freedom", yellow="semi-free or free within a limited domain", red="not free at all"). I recommend these icons for use where free and non-free licenses will be compared with each other:
 
[[Image:Fd_sq_icon_pd.svg]] "Public Domain" (same as above)
 
[[Image:Fd_sq_icon_by_grn.svg]] "Attribution"
 
[[Image:Fd_sq_icon_sa_blu.svg]] "Copyleft"
 
[[Image:Fd_sq_icon_sc_blu.svg]] "Source Code"
 
[[Image:Fd_sq_icon_drm_blu.svg]] "No DRM/TPM"
 
[[Image:Fd_sq_icon_nc.svg]] "Non-Commercial"
 
[[Image:Fd_sq_icon_nd.svg]] "Non-Derivative"
 
[[Image:Fd_sq_icon_arr.svg]] "All Rights Reserved"
 
Here are a set of icons representing the Four_freedoms:
 
[[Image:Fd_sq_icon_use.svg]] Freedom #1: Use/Performance
 
[[Image:Fd_sq_icon_study.svg]] Freedom #2: Understanding
 
[[Image:Fd_sq_icon_copy.svg]] Freedom #3: Copying and Distribution
 
[[Image:Fd_sq_icon_add.svg]] Freedom #4: Derivatives
 
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==See also==
==See also==
* [[Creative Commons mark]]
* [[Creative Commons mark]]

Revision as of 07:48, 19 December 2021

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Buttons

Please note that simply adding a button does not license your work in any way. You have to clearly state which license you use. One way of doing that is making the link point to the license, and having an explicit statement "This work is licensed under the ... license" below the work. To ensure that the page is indexed by search engines with the appropriate "usage rights," use rel="license" in the HTML code for link.

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Rational's buttons

The following set of buttons were designed RationalBob using Adobe Illustrator:

OERlogoOrangeCCBY.png OERlogoOrangeCCBYSA.png OERlogoOrangeGFDL.png OERlogoOrangeGPL.png OERlogoOrangeLGPL.png OERlogoOrangepPublic.png

Small buttons

This is the cleanest set so far and it comes with a template.

Attribution button small.png Sharealike button small.png GFDL 1.2 button small.png PD button small.png

Inkwina's icons

GNU FDL.png FreeBSD.png GNU FDL alt.png CC-BY-SA.png

The svg versions CC-BY-SA.svg and Image:GNU_FDL.svg do not display well online. They where created using Inkscape, and the SVG hasn't been cleaned up. But the Blank button.svg can be used to generate more buttons. --Inkwina 15:01, 22 February 2007 (CET)

Other button styles

By-sa-button2.png By-button.png Pd-button.png

Slightly different style:

By-sa-button.png

Again a different style - contributed by Jörg Petri:

Pd2.gif Pd 1.gif

sirgazil's buttons

A seal-like button ( SVG source file).

Sirgazil-logomod.png


QuantumPianist's buttons

A spanish traslated seal-like button ( PNG source file).

Preview:

243px-APOCL.png

The design is a remix by --QuantumPianist of the english Romaine's work:

Approved-for-free-cultural-works.svg Contributed by Romaine.

This original file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

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