Definition of Free Cultural Works

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The Definition of Free Cultural Works is a definition of free content put forth by Erik Möller^[1] and published on the website freedomdefined.org.

The first draft of the Definition of Free Cultural Works was published 3 April 2006.^[2] Richard Stallman, Lawrence Lessig, Angela Beesley^[3] and others helped the project. The 1.0 and 1.1 versions were published in English and translated into some languages.^[4]

The Definition of Free Cultural Works is used by the Wikimedia Foundation.^[5] In 2008, the Attribution and Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons licenses were marked as "Approved for Free Cultural Works".^[6] Afterward, Wikipedia migrated to using both the GNU Free Documentation License and the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.

Approved licenses

• Against DRM
• BSD-like non-copyleft licenses
• Creative Commons Attribution
• Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike
• Design Science License
• Free Art License
• FreeBSD Documentation License
• GNU Free Documentation License
• GNU General Public License
• MirOS Licence
• MIT License

See also

• Open Knowledge Definition (OKD) from The Open Knowledge Foundation
• The Free Software Definition
• Debian Free Software Guidelines
• Open Source Definition
• Libre knowledge

Notes

External links

• Definition of Free Cultural Works (freedomdefined.org)
• 2006 Announcement
• Erik Möller’s Blog
• Angela Beesley Starling’s Blog
• Free content defined on WikiEducator