CreativeCommons
Last edit November 21, 2014
A very nice, legally-protected arena for sharing creative works and data, created by a Harvard lawyer, Lawrence Lessig. It is distinct from software licenses in that it is intended for creative content, not really code.
Personally, I see the
CreativeCommons
group of licenses for the content made by users within domains made possible by
FreeSoftware
and the GNU Project.
See
http://creativecommons.org/
Also see
OpenContent
,
OpenArchivesInitiative
,
PublicLibraryOfScience
, and
BudapestOpenAccessInitiative
,
GnuGeneralPublicLicense
.
CategoryOpenSource