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public license

license by which a licensor can grant additional copyright permissions to all persons in the general public
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public license

Summary

public license is a type of license[1]. It draws 77 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_license category, ranking #8 of 9).[2]

Key Facts

  • public license's instance of is recorded as type of license[3].
  • public license is a type of license[4].
  • public license is a type of copyright license[5].
  • public license's described by source is recorded as Open Science Thesaurus[6].
  • public license's different from is recorded as open-source license[7].

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Definition and Type

public license's instance of is recorded as type of license[3]. Recorded subclass of include license[4] and copyright license[5].

Why It Matters

public license draws 77 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_license category, ranking #8 of 9).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] It is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

Related Entities

Melbourne Open Science Thesaurus

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . data.loterre.fr. Retrieved . data.loterre.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). public license. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/public-license
MLA “public license.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/public-license.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_public-license_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{public license}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/public-license}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): public license — https://4ort.xyz/entity/public-license (retrieved 2026-05-03)

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  1. 4d ago · RVA2869 · 2026-05-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → license, copyright license
    Different from → open-source license
    Subclass of → —
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P1343]]: [[Q108928644]]"
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