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License Search

This search finds the licenses that fit what you need. Choose the kind of asset you want to license, then set the permissions and duties it has to carry, and press Search licenses.

The results are readings of license models by software, not legal advice. Check the text of a license before you rely on it.

Provenance Information
What kind of asset do you want to license? * Say what kind of work the license should apply to. You can choose more than one.
This asset type comprises any type of literary work that is subject to copyright. It also includes multimedia work that combines various media types such as text, audio, images, animations, video and interactive content.
This asset type comprises a data collection, a database, a repository or any other type of systematically organized data. This also includes references to collections of unstructured information.
This asset type comprises digital artefacts such as computer programs, libraries and related non-executable data as well as related online documentation or digital media.
Permissions & Duties

must be permitted · does not matter · must be prohibited

Reproduce: must copying the work be allowed? Making copies of the work in any form.
Distribute: must passing the work on be allowed? Providing copies of the work to the public or to anyone else.
Display: must showing the work in public be allowed? Showing the work to the public without making a copy the viewer keeps.

Implied by Distribute. The search API has no facet for it. If you set it, the results mark the licenses that do not satisfy it.

Present: must presenting or performing the work in public be allowed? Performing the work in public, including by broadcast or other communication to the public.

Implied by Distribute. The search API has no facet for it. If you set it, the results mark the licenses that do not satisfy it.

Duties
Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
Providing access to the source code of the work with every copy distributed.
Modify: must changing the work be allowed? Altering the work, for example by updating it, without creating a new work; an alteration that creates a new work is Derive.
Modified Works: must passing on a changed version be allowed? Distributing a modified version of the work that does not amount to a new, derivative work.

Implied by Modify. The search API has no facet for it. If you set it, the results mark the licenses that do not satisfy it.

Duties
Giving a modified or derived work a name that tells it apart from the original.
Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
Marking a changed work as changed, saying how it differs from the original and keeping earlier notices of change.
Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
Providing access to the source code of the work with every copy distributed.
Derive: must making a new work from it be allowed? Creating a new work from the work, such as a translation, adaptation or arrangement of it or of a part of it.
Derivative Works: must passing on the new work be allowed? Distributing an adaptation of the work and making it available to the public.

Implied by Derive. The search API has no facet for it. If you set it, the results mark the licenses that do not satisfy it.

Duties
Giving a modified or derived work a name that tells it apart from the original.
Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
Marking a changed work as changed, saying how it differs from the original and keeping earlier notices of change.
Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
Providing access to the source code of the work with every copy distributed.
Commercial Use: must commercial use be allowed? Using the work to generate income, directly or indirectly, for example by selling it or by using it in advertising.
Promote: must advertising with the licensor's name or trademark be allowed? Using the name or trademarks of the licensor or of contributors to endorse or promote a product.

Implied by Commercial Use. The search API has no facet for it. If you set it, the results mark the licenses that do not satisfy it.

Not a search facet: what you type here is kept for your own notes.

Charge Distribution Fee: must charging a fee for passing the work on be allowed? Charging a fee for the act of providing a copy of the work to someone else.
ChangeLicense: must putting the work under another license be allowed? Replacing the license of the work, or of an adaptation, with another license, or changing its terms.

Is excluded by Share Alike: must others share their versions under the same license?

Duties
Choosing a replacement license that stays compliant with the terms of the original license.
License wide Duties
Adaptations have to be licensed under the same license or one the license names as compatible.

Excludes the question ChangeLicense: must putting the work under another license be allowed?

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