Wikipedia:Image copyright tags/Free licenses
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Free content is free as in freedom. This page links to some of the most popular licenses for releasing such content.
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[edit] Any-purpose
- {{Attribution}} — Requires attribution
- {{Trainweb}} — Images from TrainWeb, allowable if www.trainweb.com is printed near the photo. [1]
- {{Ubisoft-screenshot}} — User-made screenshots of software copyrighted by Ubisoft, allowable as long as attribution to Ubisoft (present in this template) is provided.
[edit] BSD
- {{BSD}} — BSD licenses
- {{BSDu|~~~}} — BSD license with user parameter
[edit] Creative Commons
These licenses generally require that licensees attribute the work as specified by the copyright-holder (licensor).
- {{cc-by}} — Attribution 1.0 license.
- {{cc-by-2.0}} — Attribution 2.0 license.
- {{cc-by-2.0-map}} — Attribution 2.0 map license.
- {{cc-by-2.0-map-of|region}} — Attribution 2.0 map of region.
- {{cc-by-2.5|Attribution}} — Attribution 2.5 license, with attribution as specified by the Attribution parameter.
- {{cc-by-2.5-in}} — Attribution 2.5 India license based on Indian law.
- {{ABr}} — A photo copyrighted by Agência Brasil
- {{cc-sa}} — ShareAlike 1.0 license.
- {{cc-by-sa}} — Attribution-Sharealike 1.0 license.
- {{cc-by-sa-2.0}} — Attribution-Sharealike 2.0 license.
- {{cc-by-sa-2.5|Attribution}} — Attribution-Sharealike 2.5 license, with attribution as specified by the Attribution parameter.
- {{cc-by-sa-2.5-in}} — Attribution-Sharealike 2.5 India license based on Indian law.
- {{cc-by-3.0}} — Attribution 3.0 license
- {{Kremlin.ru}} - Images from Kremlin.ru, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.
- {{cc-by-sa-3.0}} — Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 license.
Other Creative Commons licenses exist but are non-free for use in Wikipedia. See Non-free Creative Commons licenses for a full list and explanation.
[edit] Free Art license (License Art Libre)
- {{FAL}} — Free Art license (info)
[edit] GNU
NB: These licenses require reprinting the entire license text with any reuse of the image. If you created the image yourself, please consider using a different license.
- {{GFDL}} — GNU Free Documentation License (no invariant sections or cover texts)
- {{GFDL-self}} — GFDL template, remarking that uploader holds copyright.
- {{GFDL-retouched}} — GFDL template, remarking that a previous PD work has been digitally enhanced, and re-released under GFDL.
- {{GFDL-OpenGeoDB}} — GFDL (images from http://opengeodb.de)
- {{wikipedia-screenshot}} — Screenshots of Wikipedia web pages
- {{GPL}} — GNU General Public License. This tag is designed for GPL images licensed by others (usually as part of a software package). Do not use it to tag images you created yourself. Use another free license, such as {{GFDL}} or {{cc-by-sa}}.
- {{GPL-2}} — GNU General Public License, version 2 only.
- {{AGPL-3}} — GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.
- {{LGPL}} — GNU Lesser General Public License. This tag is designed for LGPL images licensed by others (usually as part of a software package). Do not use it to tag images you created yourself. Use another free license, such as {{GFDL}} or {{cc-by-sa}}.
- {{GFDL-user|user}} — user has released this image under the GFDL.
[edit] MIT
- {{MIT|Copyright holder}} — MIT License. This tag is designed for MIT images licensed by others (usually as part of a software package). Do not use it to tag images you created yourself, since the MIT license is intended to be applied to software, not images. You may wish to use {{cc-by-2.0}} instead, which has a similar intent but is worded more appropriately for images. You also have the option of a share-alike license, such as {{GFDL}} or {{cc-by-sa}}.
[edit] Mozilla
- {{MPL}} — Mozilla Public License
- {{MTL}} — Mozilla's MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license. Firefox is licensed under this license.
