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.
 * — 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. 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