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All textual contributions to OLPCWiki are considered to be released under the Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ Attribution 2.5] license. This is a form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft Copyleft], a way to allow others to use and share content without the usual restrictions imposed by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright Copyright] laws.
All textual contributions to OLPCWiki are considered to be released under the Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ Attribution 2.5] license. This is a form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft Copyleft], a way to allow others to use and share content without the usual restrictions imposed by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright Copyright] laws.


OLPC uses the [http://freedomdefined.org/Definition Definition of Free Cultural Works] as a standard for licenses that preserve the freedoms we support.
Images, files, and other uploaded media may be available under their own free licenses; acceptable licenses include
Images, files, and other uploaded media may be available under any of these free licenses; including
* GNU licenses: GFDL, GPL
* GNU licenses: GFDL, GPL
* Creative Commons licenses: CC-BY, CC-BY-SA
* Creative Commons licenses: CC-BY, CC-BY-SA

Revision as of 19:29, 8 January 2008

All textual contributions to OLPCWiki are considered to be released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license. This is a form of Copyleft, a way to allow others to use and share content without the usual restrictions imposed by Copyright laws.

OLPC uses the Definition of Free Cultural Works as a standard for licenses that preserve the freedoms we support. Images, files, and other uploaded media may be available under any of these free licenses; including

  • GNU licenses: GFDL, GPL
  • Creative Commons licenses: CC-BY, CC-BY-SA
  • Other licenses: BSD, MIT