WikiDevi.Wi-Cat.RU:File copyright tags/Free licenses

Free content is free as in freedom. This page links to some of the most popular licenses for releasing such content. This page can be reached via http://enwp.org/WP:ICT/FL when forwarding the full URL is not convenient.

Berkeley Software Distribution

• {{BSD}} — BSD licenses

Creative Commons

• {{cc-zero}} — Creative commons zero 1.0 license.
• {{cc-by}} — Attribution 1.0 license.
• {{cc-by-2.0}} — Attribution 2.0 license.
• {{cc-by-2.5}} — Attribution 2.5 license.
  • {{cc-by-2.5-in}} — Attribution 2.5 India license based on Indian law.
• {{cc-by-3.0}} — Attribution 3.0 license
  • {{Kremlin.ru}} — Images from Kremlin.ru, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.
• {{cc-by-4.0}} — Attribution 4.0 license.
• {{cc-sa}} — ShareAlike 1.0 license.
• {{cc-by-sa}} — Attribution-Sharealike 1.0 license.
• {{cc-by-sa-2.0}} — Attribution-Sharealike 2.0 license.
• {{cc-by-sa-2.5}} — Attribution-Sharealike 2.5 license.
  • {{cc-by-sa-2.5-in}} — Attribution-Sharealike 2.5 India license based on Indian law.
• {{cc-by-sa-3.0}} — Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 license.
• {{cc-by-sa-4.0}} — Attribution-Sharealike 4.0 license.

Other Creative Commons licenses exist but are non-free for use in Wikipedia. See Non-free Creative Commons licenses for a full list and explanation.

Free Art license (Licence Art Libre)

• {{FAL}} — Free Art license (info)

GNU's Not Unix!

NB: These licenses require reprinting the entire license text with any reuse of the image. If you created the image yourself, please consider using a different license. If one include any of the content, the entire book/section goes under GFDL, unlike CC-BY-SA

• {{GFDL}} — GNU Free Documentation License (no invariant sections or cover texts)
  • {{GFDL-self}} — GFDL template, remarking that uploader holds copyright.
  • {{GFDL-user|user}} — user has released this image under the GFDL.
  • {{GFDL-retouched}} — GFDL template, remarking that a previous PD work has been digitally enhanced, and re-released under GFDL.
  • {{GFDL-OpenGeoDB}} — GFDL (images from http://opengeodb.de)
  • {{wikipedia-screenshot}} — Screenshots of Wikipedia web pages
• {{GPL}} — 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.
  • {{GPL-2}} — GNU General Public License, version 2 only.
• {{LGPL}} — GNU Lesser General Public License. This tag is designed for LGPL 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.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• {{MIT license|Copyright holder}} — MIT License. This tag is designed for MIT images licensed by others (usually as part of a software package). Do not use it to tag images you created yourself, since the MIT license is intended to be applied to software, not images. Use another free license.

Mozilla

• {{MPL}} — Mozilla Public License.

UK Government

• {{OGL}} — Open Government Licence version 1.0
• {{OGL-2.0}} — Open Government Licence version 2.0
• {{OGL-3.0}} — Open Government Licence version 3.0