Unlicense
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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.
Key facts
- 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
via Wikipedia infobox
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
- copyright license
- Creative Commons CC0 License
- first line
- This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.
Sources (3)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- 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.