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'''For Music and Video'''
'''For Software, Music and Video'''
*Creative Commons - [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/] Craft your own license, you choose what attributes you want to have associated with it.
*Creative Commons - [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/] Craft your own license, you choose what attributes you want to have associated with it.
'''Public Domain'''
*Once declared with a legal statement that something is in the public domain, you can use it as you want but not copyright it:)

Revision as of 09:44, 26 October 2011

Watch this video for a deeper understanding of the below licenses.


For Hardware 2 license options:


For Software

  • GPL - [1] Once under GPL derivatives must remain under GPL.
  • FreeBSD - [2] Once under FreeBSD, derivative licences can be changed.


For Software, Music and Video

  • Creative Commons - [3] Craft your own license, you choose what attributes you want to have associated with it.

Public Domain

  • Once declared with a legal statement that something is in the public domain, you can use it as you want but not copyright it:)