The Open content reference article from the Simple Wikipedia on 01-May-2004 (provided by Fixed Reference: snapshots of Wikipedia from wikipedia.org)

Open content

If you create something (like pictures or writing), you can choose to make your copyright on that work "open", which means that other people are allowed to copy it and change it if they want.

If something is open content, it might be free, but it does not have to be. You can sometimes sell things that are open content.

The Simple English Wikipedia is open content. So are other Wikipedias. The content can be text or pictures or sound. If you change content or make new content, everyone can give or sell it to everyone else. They never need to ask you for your permission. When you click the save button, you give your permission right there.

See also: free software, authorship, open source, content license

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