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| Richard Stallman, who developed the first copyleft licences in the 1980s – the GNU software licences. | _Richard Stallman, who developed the first copyleft licences in the 1980s – the GNU software licences._ |
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| Creative Commons licence at the bottom of a web page. | _Creative Commons licence at the bottom of a web page._ |
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| “Knowledge is the common property of mankind.” - Thomas Jefferson. | _“Knowledge is the common property of mankind.” - Thomas Jefferson._ |
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| Creative Commons licenses have a ‘3-layer’ design – there’s a legal layer to satisfy lawyers; a plain-language layer that’s accessible to the general public; and a ‘machine-readable’ layer that search engines and other tech can understand. | _Creative Commons licenses have a ‘3-layer’ design – there’s a legal layer to satisfy lawyers; a plain-language layer that’s accessible to the general public; and a ‘machine-readable’ layer that search engines and other tech can understand._ |
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| ## Further resources | ## Further resources |
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| | - [Creative Commons](https://creativecommons.org/) |
| | - [Free Software Foundation licensing](https://www.fsf.org/licensing) |
| | - [Choose an open source licence](https://choosealicense.com/) |
| | - [Richard Stallman](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.html) - what is copyleft? |
| | - [GNU software licences](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/) |
| | - [GNU manifesto](https://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html) |
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