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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 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.
OLPC uses the [http://freedomdefined.org/Definition Definition of Free Cultural Works] as a standard for licenses that preserve the freedoms we support.

Revision as of 22:55, 12 January 2008

All textual contributions to OLPCWiki are considered to be released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license. This is 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