Image copyright tags/Free licenses

Free content is free as in freedom. This page links to some of the most popular licenses for releasing such content.

Any-purpose

 * Attribution — Requires attribution
 * Trainweb — Images from TrainWeb, allowable if www.trainweb.com is printed near the photo.
 * Ubisoft-screenshot — User-made screenshots of software copyrighted by Ubisoft, allowable as long as attribution to Ubisoft (present in this template) is provided.

BSD

 * BSD — BSD licenses
 * — BSD license with user parameter

Creative Commons
These licenses generally require that licensees attribute the work as specified by the copyright-holder (licensor).


 * cc-by — Attribution 1.0 license.
 * cc-by-2.0 — Attribution 2.0 license.
 * cc-by-2.0-map — Attribution 2.0 map license.
 * — Attribution 2.0 map of region.
 * — Attribution 2.5 license, with attribution as specified by the Attribution parameter.
 * cc-by-2.5-in — Attribution 2.5 India license based on Indian law.
 * ABr — A photo copyrighted by Agência Brasil
 * cc-sa — ShareAlike 1.0 license.
 * cc-by-sa — Attribution-Sharealike 1.0 license.
 * cc-by-sa-2.0 — Attribution-Sharealike 2.0 license.
 * — Attribution-Sharealike 2.5 license, with attribution as specified by the Attribution parameter.
 * cc-by-sa-2.5-in — Attribution-Sharealike 2.5 India license based on Indian law.
 * cc-by-3.0 — Attribution 3.0 license
 * Kremlin.ru - Images from Kremlin.ru, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.
 * 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.

Free Art license (License Art Libre)

 * — Free Art license (info)

GNU

 * GFDL — GNU Free Documentation License (no invariant sections or cover texts)
 * GFDL 1.2 — GNU Free Documentation License 1.2
 * GFDL-self — GFDL template, remarking that uploader holds copyright.
 * 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, such as GFDL or cc-by-sa.
 * 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, such as GFDL or cc-by-sa.
 * — user has released this image under the GFDL.

MIT

 * — 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. You may wish to use cc-by-2.0 instead, which has a similar intent but is worded more appropriately for images. You also have the option of a share-alike license, such as GFDL or cc-by-sa.

Mozilla

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