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Open content, coined by analogy with open source, describes any kind of creative work (for example, articles, pictures, audio, video, etc.) that is published under a non-restrictive copyright license and format that explicitly allows the copying of the information. (An example is the GNU Free Documentation License, which is used by Wikipedia and Nupedia.) But "open content" also describes content that can be modified by anyone. Of course, this is not without prior review by other participating parties--but there is no closed group like a commercial encyclopedia publisher which is responsible for all the editing.

Just as open source software is sometimes described simply as free software, open content materials can be more briefly described as free materials. See free content and free software movement.

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Copyleft and the Information Renaissance

Jan Newmarch, "Open Content Licenses," http://jan.netcomp.monash.edu.au

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Revision as of 22:53, 7 January 2002 edit The Cunctator (talk \| contribs) Autopatrolled, Administrators 7,972 edits *Wikipedia & Nupedia not exactly using GFDL yet ← Previous edit		Revision as of 23:42, 7 January 2002 edit undo Larry_Sanger (talk) Wikipedia and Nupedia do use the GNU FDL. See /Talk, and please DON'T change this back. Next edit →
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	'''Open content,''' coined by analogy with ''[[open source]],'' ~~(also known as '''free documentation''')~~ describes any kind of creative work (for example, articles, pictures, audio, video, etc.) that is published under a non-restrictive copyright license and format that explicitly allows the copying of the information. (An example is the [[GNU Free Documentation License]].) But "open content" also describes content that can be modified by anyone. Of course, this is not without prior review by other participating parties--but there is no closed group like a commercial encyclopedia publisher which is responsible for all the editing.		'''Open content,''' coined by analogy with ''[[open source]],'' describes any kind of creative work (for example, articles, pictures, audio, video, etc.) that is published under a non-restrictive copyright license and format that explicitly allows the copying of the information. (An example is the [[GNU Free Documentation License]], which is used by [[Wikipedia]] and [[Nupedia]].) But "open content" also describes content that can be modified by anyone. Of course, this is not without prior review by other participating parties--but there is no closed group like a commercial encyclopedia publisher which is responsible for all the editing.