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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
  
 +- [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)
  
  
-## Specialist(s)+ 
 +## Specialist curators of this topic
  
  
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