Types of Licenses

Free Software

Free software allows its use, modification and

distribution, but it does not have to be gratuitous.

Multiple Choice

Which one of these is NOT a type of software license

• Freeware

• Tupperware

• Open Source

• Semi-free software

Multiple Choice

Which of this is NOT a type of software licenses?

• Freeware

• Tupperware

• Open Source

• Semi-free software

Copyleft

Copyleft is a type of license that establishes that modifications or

improvements to a program redistributed by users are obliged to

comply with the same license as the original. The most widely used

copyleft free software licenses by free software authors are GPL

(General Public License) and LGPL (General Public Library License).

Multiple Choice

What do you think is a program made under the LGPL license?

• Android

• Windows

Public Domain Software

can be modified freely as well as redistributed. In short, a work is free of known copyright restrictions

What are Digital Contents?

• Content is “something that is to be expressed through some medium, as speech, writing or any of various arts for self-expression, distribution, marketing and/or publication.

• Content Creation is the contribution of information to any media and most especially to digital media for an end-user/audience in specific contexts.

Multiple Choice

Which one is the Copyright symbol?

Digital Contents

• Copyright. It is the most restrictive and extended license, since the

  author reserves all rights and only assigns them to another user in

  exchange for payment for them.

• Copyleft. It is the opposite license to copyright. The author allows

  the use of the content, including its modification and distribution,

  as long as the authorship of the content is expressly acknowledged.

  
  

Digital Contents

• Public Domain. The author of the content has given it to the rest

  of the users without any type of license, so it can be used,

  modified and distributed without attributing any authorship.

  
  

What is Creative Commons?

a type of license that emerged from copyleft and is characterized by having some reserved rights and marking conditions of use.

Attribution

This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.

Share Alike

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and open source software licenses.

Attribution-No Derivative

This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.

Attribution-Non Commercial

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.

Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivative

This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.