MediaWiki:Licenses

Recommended licenses for your own works (Creative Commons)

• CC-BY|Attribution (CC-BY)
• CC-BY-SA|Attribution – Share Alike (CC-BY-SA)
• CC-BY-NC-SA|Attribution – Share Alike – No commercial use (CC-BY-NC-SA)
• Public domain|Creation released in the public domain

Other free licenses (mostly for imported works)

• CC-BY-ND|Attribution – No derivative works (CC-BY-ND)
• CC-BY-NC-ND|Attribution – No derivative works – No commercial use (CC-BY-NC-ND)
• GNU FDL|GNU Free Documentation License
• GNU LGPL|GNU Lesser General Public License
• Double licensing|Double licensing (add the two licenses as parametres for the template)
  • Usually GFDL and CC-BY-SA, ie. {{{Double licensing|GFDL|CC-BY-SA}}}

Particular cases

• PD-old|Public domain (the creator died more than 70 years ago)
• logo|This is the copyrighted logo of an organization
• badge CC-BY-SA |This is the image of a badge, releasable under CC-BY-SA
• cover|This is the cover of a book or other printed publication
• AGESCI|AGESCI owns the image's copyright
• nolicense|I don't know what the/a license is