DescriptionA Decision Tree for Choosing Free-Libre Licenses for Cultural and Technological Work.png
English: This decision tree helps users choose the right free/libre license for the type of cultural or technological work they wish to share: software, hardware, art, music, or scholarly work.
"Which free/libre license should I choose to distribute my work and help advance a more creative and vibrant culture? All our creative work will eventually enter the Public Domain. If your hope and intention is for others to creatively engage in your work as part of a living culture, why not share it in your lifetime?" To help creators of new works navigate the panoply of free/libre, open source, and copyleft licenses, I made a decision tree flowchart as an image map with clickable links to respective licenses and relevant articles. The tree was inspired by a decision tree by Terry Hancock, which accompanied his article, “Choosing and Using Free Licenses for Software, Hardware, and Aesthetic worksarchive copy at the Wayback Machine” (“A Best Practices Flowchart for Choosing a License” by Terry Hancock, Free Software Magazine, 2010-09-26). Hancock’s follow-up essay, “Confusion and Complexity: High time to prune the Creative Commons licenses?“ provided additional insight.
Vector art for this graphic is available as an SVG file, maintained at the Open Siddur Project.[1].
version 0.9 -- Prepared for the Open Siddur Project by Aharon Varady, 2010-01-09
version 1.0 -- Prepared for the Open Siddur Project by Aharon Varady, 2014-04-02
Licensing
I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:
to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
A decision tree (flowchart) for helping copyright stewards choose an appropriate free-culture/libre license for the type of cultural or technological work they wish to share: software, hardware, art, music, or scholarly work.