Introduction

Licensing is giving permission for someone to use something. This category of the P2P Foundation Wiki covers a number of different aspects of licensing including reviews of licenses and licensing groups that serve creators throughout the world. P2P Licensing covers some of the ways the P2P Theory can inform the conversation around licensing. Any P2P Network can use P2P Protocol to choose a licensing scheme that aids the will of that network. In many cases, though, a desire for Interoperability for P2P Networks can lead a P2P Network to choose a licensing scheme that allows other networks and the public to access the network's Common Resources.

• Guide to Open Content Licenses
• Introduction to Creative Commons Licenses

Related Sections

• Open Standards]

Key Resources

Audio & Video

1. Brian Newman on Online Distribution and Creative Licenses
2. Eben Moglen on Document Licenses and GPL3 ; Eben Moglen on Open Licenses in a Web Services Era
3. Joi Ito on Commons-based Licenses and Games
4. Ragavan Srinivasan on Open Licenses in Education

Essays and Reports

* Report: Fred von Lohmann, A Better Way Forward: Voluntary Collective Licensing of Music File Sharing, April 2008 [1]

Licenses per Domain

Creativity, Art & Music

1. Free Art License
2. Free Music Public License ; Free Sheet Music License

Equity-based Licenses

1. Common Good Public License
2. Copyfarleft
3. Ecopyleft
4. Equitable Access Licensing
5. Equitable Open Source
6. Equity-based Licenses
7. IANG License

Free Network Services

1. Network Service Licenses

Open Design and Manufacturing / Hardware

1. Open Design License Agreement
2. Open Hardware Licenses
3. TAPR Open Hardware License
4. Talis Community License