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

• An introduction to Creative Commons
• Knowledge sharing in practice

External links

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

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