All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part VIII

[robkelk]

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Do we have a page under Writer's Tools for licenses?

Do we want a page under Writer's Tools - or anywhere else on ATT - for licenses?

Over on the freebie wiki, I just chased a free-use license down a rabbit-hole... and came up with two of them instead of the expected one. So, here's the start of a list of licenses, in MediaWiki markup:

* GNU doesn't have an "art" license, instead sending people to FSF
* FSF doesn't have an "art" license, instead sending people to artlibre.org
* [http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en/ artlibre.org Free Art License 1.3]
* [http://opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license/ Open Source Initiative Artistic license] - two versions

And there's always Creative Commons. Anybody got a link for them?

This (hypothetical?) page should also mention "putting your work into the public domain" - which is not the same as offering a license for it.

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I guess it could count under the GNU Free Documentation License
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_ ... on_License

It's naturally designed for non-fiction works but I don't see why it couldn't be applied to literature.

You're right - somebody could no doubt apply GPL or LGPL to a work of fiction.

(The trip down the rabbit-hole was because a 3D model mentioned the "GNU Fan Art" license - which isn't listed on the GNU license page. I should ask whether the artist intended to use GPL or LGPL...)
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Rob Kelk
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