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Also known as the Unlicense

The Unlicense is a public domain equivalent license for software which provides a public domain waiver with a fall-back public-domain-like license, similar to the CC Zero for cultural works. It includes language used in earlier software projects and has a focus on an anti-copyright message.

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Vinony's link graph records 302 inbound references to Unlicense, and connects out to GNU General Public License, GitHub and Creative Commons license.

It is catalogued under the topic Permissive software licenses.

Vinony links it to 10 Wikipedia language editions.

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Software license.name
Unlicense
Software license.image
PD-icon-black.svg
Software license.image_size
140px
Software license.caption
Unlicense logo
Software license.author
Arto Bendiken
Software license.date
2010
Software license.OSI approved
Yes
Software license.FSF approved
Yes
Software license.GPL compatible
Yes
Software license.copyleft
No
Software license.linking
Yes

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Wikidata facts

Official website
unlicense.org
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last line
For more information, please refer to <http://unlicense.org/>
Commons category
Unlicense
approved by
الجميع
short name
Unlicense
different from
all rights reserved
first line
This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.
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Contents
  • License terms
  • Reception
  • History
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

The Unlicense is a public domain equivalent license for software which provides a public domain waiver with a fall-back public-domain-like license, similar to the CC Zero for cultural works. It includes language used in earlier software projects and has a focus on an anti-copyright message.

==License terms== The text of the Unlicense is as follows:

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Unlicense” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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