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There are multiple licenses which aim to release works into the public domain. In 2000 the WTFPL was released as a public domain like software license. [59] Creative Commons (created in 2002 by Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson, and Eric Eldred) has introduced several public-domain-like licenses, called Creative Commons licenses. These give authors ...
The text of Wikipedia is copyrighted (automatically, under the Berne Convention) by Wikipedia editors and contributors and is formally licensed to the public under one or several liberal licenses. Most of Wikipedia's text and many of its images are co-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA ...
However, being in the public domain in its home country does not automatically mean that the work was also in the public domain in the US because the US does not follow the "rule of shorter term". Wherever these country-specific tags are used, they should be accompanied by a rationale explaining why the image is thought to be in the public ...
The Unlicense software license, published around 2010, offers a public-domain waiver text with a fall-back public-domain-like license, inspired by permissive licenses but without an attribution clause. [12] [13] In 2015 GitHub reported that approximately 102,000 of their 5.1 million licensed projects, or 2%, use the Unlicense. [note 3]
Only text that is licensed compatibly with the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) or in the public domain can be freely copied onto Wikipedia (if copyright of the previously published text belongs exclusively to you, it must also be licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) to comply ...
It is not unreasonable to put your content in the public domain, but we advise you to also license it under a CC BY license or a free-use license if you desire a "softer" fallback than the GNU FDL. Note that all text is licensed by the uploader or editor under a CC BY-SA license (both on the edit form and on the upload submission form) if they ...
The 2000 released WTFPL license is a short public domain like software license. [5] The 2009 released CC0 was created as public domain license for all content with compatibility with also law domains (e.g. Civil law of continental Europe) where dedicating into public domain is problematic.
{} – GNU General Public License. This tag is designed for GPL images licensed by others (usually as part of a software package). Do not use it to tag images you created yourself. Use another free license. {} – GNU General Public License, version 2 only. {} - GNU General Public License, version 3 or later.