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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Contents 1 Any-purpose 2 BSD 3 Creative Commons 4 Free Art license (License Art Libre) 5 GNU 6 MIT 7 Mozilla

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.

BSD

• {{BSD}} — BSD licenses
  • {{BSDu|~~~}} — BSD license with user parameter

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
• {{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.

Free Art license (License Art Libre)

• {{FAL}} — Free Art license (info)

GNU

• {{GFDL}} — GNU Free Documentation License (no invariant sections or cover texts)
  • {{GFDL 1.2}} — GNU Free Documentation License 1.2
  • {{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.
• {{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.
• {{Affero}} - This tag is designed for AGPL 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}}.

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}}.

Mozilla

• {{MPL}} — Mozilla Public License
• {{MTL}} — Mozilla's MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license. Firefox is licensed under this license.