List of free-content licenses

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This is a list of free-content licenses not specifically intended for software. For information on software-related licenses, see Comparison of free and open-source software licenses.

A variety of free-content licenses exist, some of them tailored to a specific purpose. Also listed are open-hardware licenses, which may be used on design documents of and custom-made software for open-source hardware.

## Contents

* 1 List
* 1.1 For documents and text
* 1.2 For any type of content
* 1.3 For fonts
* 1.4 For hardware
* 1.5 For tabletop games
* 1.6 Other content
* 2 Using software licenses for other content
* 3 Notes

## List

### For documents and text

* FreeBSD Documentation License
* GNU Free Documentation License, or GFDL
* GNU Simpler Free Documentation License, or GSFDL
* Open Content License, obsolete
* Open Publication License, obsolete

### For any type of content

* Against DRM license
* Creative Commons licenses which are considered free:
* Creative Commons Attribution, or CC BY
* Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike, or CC BY-SA
* Creative Commons Zero, or CC0[1]
* Creative Archive Licence, discontinued license of the BBC Archive
* Design Science License
* Free Art License
* Korean Open Access License
* MirOS Licence
* WTFPL

### For fonts

* Apache License
* SIL Open Font License
* Ubuntu Font License
* See also: GPL font exception

### For hardware

* CERN Open Hardware License
* Simputer General Public License
* TAPR Open Hardware License

### For tabletop games

* Dominion Rules Licence
* Open Game License

### Other content

* Open Audio License, for audio
* Open Database License, or ODbL, for databases

## Using software licenses for other content

Some free software licenses, including the GNU General Public License (GPL) and European Union Public Licence (EUPL), can also be used to license content other than software. However, the FSF has recommended against using the GPL for educational works.[2]

## Notes

1. ↑ CC0 is technically not a license, although it is often called one. The legal code of CC0 does contain a "Public License Fallback" clause, which will act as a free-content license when a jurisdiction does not recognizes the 'waiving your rights' part for some reason. See also the CC0 FAQ.
2. ↑ Free Software Foundation. "FAQ about the GNU Licenses - Can I use the GPL for something other than software?". https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLOtherThanSoftware.

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Free-culture and open-source movements

Concepts and
practices|

| Key concepts|

* Commons-based peer production
* Crowdsourcing
* Gratis versus libre
* Open collaboration
* Openness
* Participatory culture
* Sharism

| Social peer-to-peer processes|

* Peer-to-peer banking
* Peer-to-peer carsharing
* Peer-to-peer lending
* Peer-to-peer ridesharing

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Research and science|

* Citizen science
* Open science
* Access
* Notebook science
* Research
* Science data
* Plan S

Data, information,
and knowledge|

* Free content
* Knowledge commons
* Open communication
* Open knowledge
* Content
* Data

Communication
and learning|

| Media|

* Collaborative writing
* Democratic media
* Open publishing
* Participatory media
* Peer review

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Education|

* Open education
* Educational resources
* University
* Admissions
* Open-door academic policy

Journalism|

* Citizen media
* Citizen journalism and Wiki journalism
* Open-source journalism

Economy, production,
and development|

| Products|

* Free and open-source software - FOSS
* Free/Libre software
* Open-source software
* Open-design movement
* Robotics
* Open gaming
* Open-source architecture
* Open-source hardware

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Economic principles|

* Gift economy
* Open innovation
* Open patent
* Open standard
* Sharing economy

Politics and governance|

* Open government
* Open-source governance

Organizations|

* Creative Commons
* Free Software Foundation
* Open Architecture Network
* Openmod initiative
* Open Knowledge International
* Open Rights Group
* Open Source Initiative
* Open Web Foundation
* P2P Foundation
* Pirate Party
* PLOS
* SPARC

Activists|

* Tim Berners-Lee
* Alexandra Elbakyan
* Cody Wilson
* Lawrence Lessig
* Peter Murray-Rust
* Douglas Rushkoff
* Richard Stallman
* Peter Suber
* Peter Sunde
* Aaron Swartz
* Matthew H. Todd
* John Wilbanks

Projects and
movements|

* DIYbio
* Free-culture movement
* Free software movement
* Open science movement
* Open Source Ecology
* Open-source software movement
* OpenCores
* OpenWetWare
* Sci-Hub

| Tools|

* Licenses
* Creative Commons
* GPL
* Definition Docs
* Free Cultural Works
* Free Software
* Open
* Open Source
* Open Data Indices
* Open educational resources
* Open music model
* Open Web movement

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Intellectual property activism

Issues|

* Artificial scarcity
* Copyright infringement
* Digital rights management
* Gripe site
* Legal aspects of file sharing
* Mashup
* digital
* music
* videos
* Monopolies of knowledge
* Music piracy
* Orphan works
* Patents
* biological
* software
* software patent debate
* trolling
* Public domain

Concepts|

* All rights reversed
* Alternative compensation system
* Anti-copyright notice
* Business models for open-source software
* Copyleft
* Commercial use of copyleft works
* Commons-based peer production
* Electronic sell-through
* Free content
* Free software license
* Libertarian positions
* Open content
* Open-design movement
* Open Music Model
* Open patent
* Open-source
* Open-source hardware
* Open-source software
* Prize system
* contests
* Share-alike
* Video on demand

Movements|

* Access to Knowledge movement
* Anti-copyright
* Cultural environmentalism
* Free-culture movement
* Free software movement

Organizations|

| Pro-copyright|

* Copyright Alliance

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Pro-copyleft|

* Creative Commons
*   * Electronic Frontier Foundation
* Free Software Foundation
* Open Rights Group
* Organization for Transformative Works
* The Pirate Bay
* Piratbyrån
* Pirate Party
* Public Knowledge
* Sci-Hub
* Students for Free Culture

People|

* Cory Doctorow
* Alexandra Elbakyan
* Rick Falkvinge
* Lawrence Lessig
* Richard Stallman
* Peter Suber
* Peter Sunde
* Aaron Swartz

Documentaries|

* Steal This Film (2006, 2007)
* Good Copy Bad Copy (2007)
* RiP!: A Remix Manifesto (2008)
* TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard (2013)
* The Internet's Own Boy (2014)

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