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The Definition of Free Cultural Works is the definition of free content put forth by Erik Möller[1] and published on the website freedomdefined.org.
The first draft of the Definition of Free Cultural Works was published 3 April 2006 [2]. Richard Stallman, Lawrence Lessig, Angela Beesley[3] and others helped the project. The 1.0 and 1.1 versions were published in English and translated into some languages [4].
The Definition of Free Cultural Works is used by the Wikimedia Foundation.[5] In 2008, the Attribution and Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons licenses were marked as "Approved for Free Cultural Works" [6]. Afterward, Wikipedia migrated to the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.
Contents
Approved licenses
- Against DRM
- BSD-like non-copyleft licenses
- Creative Commons Attribution
- Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike
- Design Science License
- FreeBSD Documentation License
- Free Art License
- GNU Free Documentation License
- GNU General Public License
- Lizenz für Freie Inhalte
- MirOS Licence
- MIT License
Notes
See also
- Open Knowledge Definition (OKD) from The Open Knowledge Foundation
- The Free Software Definition
- Debian Free Software Guidelines
- Open Source Definition
External links
- Definition of Free Cultural Works (freedomdefined.org)
- 2006 Announcement
- Erik Möller’s Blog
- Angela Beesley Starling’s Blog
- Free content defined on WikiEducator
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