Free content
Free content, or free information, is any kind of work, artwork, or other creative content which does not have lots of legal restrictions about how people can use it. People have freedom to make changed versions of the content, give changed and not changed versions of the content to others, and sell copies of the content and changed versions of it.[1] The author of free content does not use all of his copyright monopoly, he gives many of the rights to others. The articles in Wikipedia are free content.
Free software is different from free music or text, because it is often much more difficult to understand and change a program if one does not have its source code, than it is to change a song or a text. Because of that, the source code of free software must always be easy to receive, or the software will not be free. However, source code for pictures, movies and music can also exist and be given to others. Choosing what to call a “source code” is sometimes important when publishing a work under a copyleft license.
Free Content Media
Official logo for the Definition of Free Cultural Works (without text)
The copyright symbol drawn in SVG. Image version of the symbol ©.
Copyleft symbol 🄯 drawn in SVG.
Creative Commons icon (no background).
Logo of the Open Source Initiative, “combines the ‘O’ of open and a keyhole, for unlocking source code”
Logo of the Open Source Hardware Association
Open Content Project logo, 1998
The logo on the screen in the subject's left hand is a Creative Commons license, while the paper in his right hand explains, in Khmer, that the image is open content.
References
- ↑ Richard Stallman (2008-03-20). "Free Software and Free Manuals". Free Software Foundation. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
