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License classification icon for "no requirements". This can be used to represent a work with a "public domain assignment" or a work with a license which does not even require attribution (e.g. a simple warranty statement along with "no credit required"). It could also be used to represent a work whose copyright has expired. Any situation in which the work may be safely treated as "public domain". Original SVG. | License classification icon for "no requirements". This can be used to represent a work with a "public domain assignment" or a work with a license which does not even require attribution (e.g. a simple warranty statement along with "no credit required"). It could also be used to represent a work whose copyright has expired. Any situation in which the work may be safely treated as "public domain". Original SVG. | ||
=== Worldwide applicability === | |||
When distributing a free work over the world, it is important to understand how people from other countries will be able to reuse this work. | |||
License writers have adopted three different strategies regarding the internationalization of their licenses: | |||
* ''same license for everyone'': only the original license text (often in English) is given legal value, and translations may be provided purely for information purposes; | |||
Latest revision as of 00:33, 7 December 2009
License classification icon for "no requirements". This can be used to represent a work with a "public domain assignment" or a work with a license which does not even require attribution (e.g. a simple warranty statement along with "no credit required"). It could also be used to represent a work whose copyright has expired. Any situation in which the work may be safely treated as "public domain". Original SVG.
Worldwide applicability[edit]
When distributing a free work over the world, it is important to understand how people from other countries will be able to reuse this work.
License writers have adopted three different strategies regarding the internationalization of their licenses:
- same license for everyone: only the original license text (often in English) is given legal value, and translations may be provided purely for information purposes;