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GNU Free Documentation License

copyleft license primarily for free software documentation
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Summary

GNU Free Documentation License is a copyleft license[1]. It draws 2,512 Wikipedia views per month (copyleft license category, ranking #1 of 5).[2]

Key Facts

  • Author: Free Software Foundation[3]
  • Publisher: Free Software Foundation[4]
  • Movement: free software movement[5]
  • Subclass of: free license[6]
  • Software version identifier: 1.3[7]
  • Commons category: GFDL[8]
  • Language of work or name: Slovene[9]
  • Said to be the same as: Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License[10], Wikipedia:GFDL[11]
  • Publication date: 2008[12]
  • Has edition or translation: GNU Free Documentation License, version 1.1[13], GNU Free Documentation License, version 1.2[14], GNU Free Documentation License, version 1.3[15], GNU Free Documentation License, version 1.3 or later[16], GNU Free Documentation License, version 1.2 or later[17], GNU Free Documentation License, version 1.1 or later[18], Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License[19]
  • Approved by: Debian Free Software Guidelines[20]
  • Official website: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html[21]
  • Topic's main category: Category:GNU Free Documentation License[22], Category:GFDL files[23]
  • Short name: GFDL[24], ЛВД ГНУ[25]

Why It Matters

GNU Free Documentation License has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] It is known by 51 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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