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Certain sites call themselves open, free, or libre (or variations thereof).
  
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It is a different issue of whether they actually are open, or how open, since there are various ways the term is used. The actual level of openness (whether the resource is free for the user to reproduce, change, build upon, use commercially or distribute) is dependent on how the material is licensed.
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== External links ==
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* [http://opened.creativecommons.org/Property:Open_or_Free_Statement Property:Open or Free Statement] on opened.creativecommons.org

Latest revision as of 11:45, 23 February 2010

Certain sites call themselves open, free, or libre (or variations thereof).

It is a different issue of whether they actually are open, or how open, since there are various ways the term is used. The actual level of openness (whether the resource is free for the user to reproduce, change, build upon, use commercially or distribute) is dependent on how the material is licensed.

External links