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MediaWiki:Licenses

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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