copyleft
Copyleft is a general method for making a program (or other work) free (in the sense of freedom, not “zero price”), and requiring all modified and extended versions of the program to be free as well.The GNU Project, What is Copyleft?
All knowledge all discoveries belong to everybody. […] All knowledge all discoveries belong to you by right. It is time to demand what belongs to you.William S. Burroughs, The Job
links
- new scientist article http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/copyleft/
- the information society http://draves.org/infosoc/ and IP-Not http://draves.org/infosoc/mirrors/ipnot/
- open content licence http://opencontent.org/opl.shtml
- http://moglen.law.columbia.edu (Eben Moglen is professor of law and legal history at Columbia University Law School. He serves without fee as General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation)
GPL-Compatible, Free Software Licenses
The GNU General Public License, or GNU GPL for short. http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.html This is a free software license, and a copyleft license. We recommend it for most software packages.
The Clarified Artistic License http://www.statistica.unimib.it/utenti/dellavedova/software/artistic2.html This license is a free software license, compatible with the GPL. It is the minimal set of changes needed to correct the vagueness of the Original Artistic License.
Free Documentation Licenses
The GNU Free Documentation License http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/fdl.html This is a license intended for use on copylefted free documentation. We plan to adopt it for all GNU manuals.
The FreeBSD Documentation License http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ln15.html This is a permissive non-copyleft Free Documentation license that is compatible with the GNU FDL.
Licenses For Works Besides Software and Documentation
The Design Science License http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt This is a free and copyleft license meant for general data, not particularly for software.
Note, though, that the GNU GPL can be used for general data which is not software, as long as one can determine what the definition of “source code” refers to in the particular case. As it turns out, the DSL also requires that you determine what the “source code” is, using approximately the same definition that the GPL uses.
mindguard public license for memetic protection http://zapatopi.net/mgpl.html
Open Source + free software
- Free/Libre and Open Source Software: Survey and Study http://www.infonomics.nl/FLOSS/index.htm
- pinko-commie sympathisers.. . Dot Communist Manifesto