7. USER LICENCES

7. USER LICENCES

 The information and software that we find online may be protected by some form of licence.

 In order to avoid problems with the exchange of software, public licences were created. The most common example is the General Public Licence (GPL). Any software under this licence is free software, which cannot be owned by anyone. The Linux operation system an the LibreOffice package are examples of free, open source software that are GPL protected.

Creative Commons Licences allow us to give people certaing rights for using content that we have created.


http://creativecommons.org/licenses/?lang=en