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.
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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.
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.