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Aaron Swartz and Lawrence Lessig at the 2002 event for the first release of the licenses
An example of a permitted combination of two works, one being CC BY-SA and the other being public domain
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…according to definitions such as DFSG or the Free Software Foundation's standards, and cannot be used in contexts that require these freedoms, such as Wikipedia. For software, Creative Commons includes three free licenses created by other institutions: the BSD License, the GNU LGPL, and the GNU GPL. Mixing and…
Jimbo at Fosdem cropped
American journalist John Seigenthaler (1927–2014), subject of the Seigenthaler biography incident
Sue Gardner, first executive director, in 2013 at Wikimania
Wikipedia Monument in Słubice, Poland, by Mihran Hakobyan (2014)