Licenses

Choosing a license for your content is important for knowledge sharing. Under the Berne Convention^W work in most countries is automatically copyright, which restricts knowledge sharing.

You can actively release some of your rights, and this surprisingly easy to do by using a license that already exists. Creative Commons licenses are the most popular licenses for open content and media. The GPL is popular license for open source software.

See also[edit | edit source]

• An introduction to Creative Commons
• Knowledge sharing in practice

External links[edit | edit source]

• WhyNotCopyleft - Ethical Public Domain wiki.
• The Case for Free Use: Reasons Not to Use a Creative Commons -NC License

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Authors	Chris Watkins
License	CC-BY-SA-3.0
Language	English (en)
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Created	March 1, 2010 by Chris Watkins
Modified	January 24, 2023 by Irene Delgado
Cite as	Chris Watkins (2010–2023). "Licenses". Appropedia. Retrieved April 18, 2024.
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