Licensing materials

OLPC is distributing laptops for children to communities throughout the developing world, with trial projects underway in Brazil, Uruguay, Peru, Nigeria, and Thailand. The laptops are intended to be tools for exploration and creation; as such, all materials shipped on the laptops will be free for children to use, change, and share. Software and content collections on the laptops are all freely licensed under one of the following licenses:

Licenses for software

• the GNU General Public License [GPL]
• the GNU Lesser General Public License [LGPL]
• the MIT License

Licenses for texts, media, and other content

• the Creative Commons Attribution license [CC-BY],
• the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license [CC-BY-SA],
• the GNU Free Documentation License [GFDL],
• the public domain (e.g., the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication [CC-PD])

Licenses for library materials

• the Creative Commons Non-Commercial license [CC-NC],