Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index simple:Open Content 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.) "Open content" is also sometimes used to describe 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 (not to be confused with Freeware), open content materials can be more briefly described as free materials. But not every open content is free in the GNU GPL sense (for instance the Open Directory). Some licenses attempt to maximize the freedom of all potential recipients in the future, while others maximize the freedom of the initial recipient. See public domain, free content, free software movement, copyleft. Open content projects (in alphabetical order): Aozora Bunko (in Japanese) - free digital Japanese books Asian Open Source Centre [1] - contains an open content GFDL wiki on open source [1] BerliOS [1] Bitzi - free community-built catalog of digital files Common Content [1] - open catalog of Creative Commons licensed content Connexions Repository [1] - Rice University's course material Creative Commons Disinfopedia Eldritch Press [1] - books ExtinctionLevelEvent.com - Open Content Web Comic [1] FreeMedia [1] - stock photos from the University of North Texas Jake [1] - Research software and database where content is built in an open source way GNUtemberg [1] in Italian. ibiblio [1] Libre Society [1] - open culture site Linux documentation project [1] - Content project to develop documentation for Linux LOCA_Records [1] - open content record label Magnatune [1] - open content record label Nupedia [1] - peer-reviewed encyclopedia Opencode [1] - consortium for open research and content OpenContent [1] - open source licensing scheme for information content Open Content for Education [1] Open-education.org [1] - Portal and advocacy-site for collaborative creation of Open Content Educational materials. Open Gaming Center - an open content experiment to create a games and gaming encyclopedia Openlaw [1] - Experiment in the open crafting of legal arguments Opsound [1] - Open sound pool, a record label. Open Directory Project [1] - web directory like Yahoo. Open Music Registry [1] - Open sharing of music using an Open Audio License Open Photo [1] - stock photos OYEZ [1] - US Supreme Court multimedia Prelinger Archives [1] - government and advertising films Project Gutenberg [1] Public Library of Science [1] PlanetMath [1] - Math for the people, by the people. Wikimedia [1] Wikibooks [1] Wikipedia [1] - free encyclopedia Wikiquote [1] Wiktionary [1] Wikitravel [1] - travel guide (not part of Wikimedia) Woochi - Wine Encyclopaedia World66 [1] - An open content travel guide (previously known as CapitanCook) World Lecture Hall [1] - Online course materials The Worldwide Lexicon See also public domain resources, semi-public domain resources, public domain image resources, collaborative writing. MIT OpenCourseWare [1] is not open-content material by the definition above, since copyrights remain with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or members of its faculty. Table of contents 1 Licenses 2 External links 3 Credit Licenses Creative Commons License (11 versions) Design Science License GNU Free Documentation License October Open Game License (OOGL) - a more open version of Open Game License Open Publication License - License for the Open Content Project Open Directory Project License used by Open Directory Project Open Game License - License of the Open Gaming Foundation, as drafted by Wizards of the Coast. Open Content License External links alqua.com, Free documents Creative Commons - The open content idea and creative works Design Science License ibiblio - The open content idea as a library Copyleft and the Information Renaissance locarecords.com, Open Source Record Label Jan Newmarch, "Open Content Licenses," http://jan.netcomp.monash.edu.au http://www.opencontent.org/ Open directory category: Open Content Open Content resources and mailing list at OpenContentList.com Public Library of Science Licenses for Documentation at gnu.org This Google search attempts to find documents with GFDL license grant boilerplate. Credit The list of open content projects are partly based on The Institutional Design of Open Source Programming on Firstmonday This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.