Free content is free as in freedom. This page links to some of the most popular licenses for releasing such content. This page can be reached via http:// tinyurl.com/WikiFree if you wish to refer someone to the page when forwarding the full URL is not convenient.

• ((Apache-2.0)) — Apache License, Version 2.0

• ((BSD)) — BSD licenses

• ((cc-zero)) — Creative commons zero 1.0 license.
• ((cc-by)) — Attribution 1.0 license.
• ((cc-by-2.0)) — Attribution 2.0 license.
• ((cc-by-2.5)) — Attribution 2.5 license.
  • ((cc-by-2.5-in)) — Attribution 2.5 India license based on Indian law.
  • ((Agência Brasil)) — A photo copyrighted by Agência Brasil
• ((cc-by-3.0)) — Attribution 3.0 license
  • ((Kremlin.ru)) - Images from Kremlin.ru, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.
• ((cc-sa)) — ShareAlike 1.0 license.
• ((cc-by-sa)) — Attribution-Sharealike 1.0 license.
• ((cc-by-sa-2.0)) — Attribution-Sharealike 2.0 license.
• ((cc-by-sa-2.5)) — Attribution-Sharealike 2.5 license.
  • ((cc-by-sa-2.5-in)) — Attribution-Sharealike 2.5 India license based on Indian law.
• ((cc-by-sa-3.0)) — Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 license.

Other Creative Commons licenses exist but are non-free for use in Wikipedia. See Non-free Creative Commons licenses for a full list and explanation.

• ((DSL)) — Design Science License (text of license)

• ((FAL)) — Free Art license (info)

NB: These licenses require reprinting the entire license text with any reuse of the image. If you created the image yourself, please consider using a different license. If one include any of the content, the entire book/section goes under GFDL, unlike CC-BY-SA

• ((GFDL)) — GNU Free Documentation License (no invariant sections or cover texts)
  • ((GFDL-self)) — GFDL template, remarking that uploader holds copyright.
  • ((GFDL-user|user)) — user has released this image under the GFDL.
  • ((GFDL-retouched)) — GFDL template, remarking that a previous PD work has been digitally enhanced, and re-released under GFDL.
  • ((GFDL-OpenGeoDB)) — GFDL (images from http://opengeodb.de)
  • ((wikipedia-screenshot)) — Screenshots of Wikipedia web pages
• ((GPL)) — GNU General Public License. This tag is designed for GPL images licensed by others (usually as part of a software package). Do not use it to tag images you created yourself. Use another free license.
  • ((GPL-2)) — GNU General Public License, version 2 only.
• ((LGPL)) — GNU Lesser General Public License. This tag is designed for LGPL images licensed by others (usually as part of a software package). Do not use it to tag images you created yourself. Use another free license.

• ((MIT|Copyright holder)) — MIT License. This tag is designed for MIT images licensed by others (usually as part of a software package). Do not use it to tag images you created yourself, since the MIT license is intended to be applied to software, not images. Use another free license.

• ((MPL)) — Mozilla Public License.
• ((MTL)) — Mozilla's MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license. Firefox is licensed under this license.

• ((OGL)) — Open Government License.

• ((WTFPL)) — A release under the WTFPL achieves the same freedom as a public domain release, even in countries that do not recognize an ability to release works into the public domain.