{
  "id": "open-license",
  "type": "concept",
  "name": "Open licence",
  "governance": "not-applicable",
  "status": "active",
  "url": "https://opendefinition.org/licenses/",
  "tags": [
    "openness:open-content",
    "region:global"
  ],
  "prose": {
    "es": {
      "name": "Licencia abierta",
      "summary": "Una licencia abierta es un permiso legal estándar que autoriza a cualquiera a usar, modificar y compartir una obra con condiciones mínimas, como citar."
    },
    "en": {
      "summary": "An open licence is a standard legal permission that lets anyone use, modify and share a work, with minimal conditions such as crediting the author."
    }
  },
  "relations": [
    {
      "predicate": "related-to",
      "target": "creative-commons",
      "derived": true,
      "note": "Steward of the Creative Commons licence suite, the best-known family of open licences."
    },
    {
      "predicate": "related-to",
      "target": "creative-commons-licences",
      "derived": true,
      "note": "Only CC0, CC BY and CC BY-SA are on the conformant-licence list, so a CC licence is not always open."
    },
    {
      "predicate": "related-to",
      "target": "open-access",
      "derived": true,
      "note": "The Budapest Open Access Initiative recommends CC BY or an equivalent licence as the optimal licence for open access."
    },
    {
      "predicate": "related-to",
      "target": "open-definition",
      "derived": true,
      "note": "Maintains the list of licences that conform to it."
    },
    {
      "predicate": "related-to",
      "target": "open-source-definition",
      "derived": true,
      "note": "OSI-approved licences are licences that comply with it."
    },
    {
      "predicate": "related-to",
      "target": "open-source-initiative",
      "derived": true,
      "note": "Approves licences that comply with the Open Source Definition."
    },
    {
      "predicate": "related-to",
      "target": "spdx",
      "derived": true,
      "note": "Its License List gives open and other licences standard identifiers."
    },
    {
      "predicate": "related-to",
      "target": "zenodo",
      "derived": true,
      "note": "Asks depositors to choose a licence for open-access records."
    },
    {
      "predicate": "related-to",
      "target": "creative-commons",
      "derived": true,
      "note": "Steward of the Creative Commons licence suite, the best-known family of open licences."
    },
    {
      "predicate": "related-to",
      "target": "creative-commons-licences",
      "derived": true,
      "note": "Only CC0, CC BY and CC BY-SA are on the conformant-licence list, so a CC licence is not always open."
    },
    {
      "predicate": "related-to",
      "target": "open-access",
      "derived": true,
      "note": "The Budapest Open Access Initiative recommends CC BY or an equivalent licence as the optimal licence for open access."
    },
    {
      "predicate": "related-to",
      "target": "open-definition",
      "derived": true,
      "note": "Maintains the list of licences that conform to it."
    },
    {
      "predicate": "related-to",
      "target": "open-source-definition",
      "derived": true,
      "note": "OSI-approved licences are licences that comply with it."
    },
    {
      "predicate": "related-to",
      "target": "open-source-initiative",
      "derived": true,
      "note": "Approves licences that comply with the Open Source Definition."
    },
    {
      "predicate": "related-to",
      "target": "spdx",
      "derived": true,
      "note": "Its License List gives open and other licences standard identifiers."
    },
    {
      "predicate": "related-to",
      "target": "zenodo",
      "derived": true,
      "note": "Asks depositors to choose a licence for open-access records."
    }
  ]
}