Copyright
open licensing on the FRAW site

In general, you should assume that any inforamation on FRAW site is freely available for use on a non-commercial, attribution and share-alike basis. Each page should clearly state the copyright status so that you can use the material appropriately.

The free documentation licenses we use on the FRAW site are:

• The Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (by-nc-sa), version 3;
  
  
• The Gnu Free Documentation License (GFDL), version 1.2; and
  
  
• The Gnu Public License (GPL), version 3.

Click on the links above to obtain a copy of each license.

The principal difference between these licenses is that the GPL/GFDL allow commercial use of the information with the appropriate acknowledgement of the authors, whilst the CCNCSA does not allow commercial use in any form. Which of these two licenses is adopted by the author of a particular document on this site is entirely their own choice.

Some activists use the @nticopyright label to release their information under. The problem with this is that it allows those who the activists campaign against to appripriate the information and use it against them. For this reason this site uses free documentation licenses that use the law as a tool, to control the use of the information provided through the FRAW site, in order to prevent its undesirable commercial exploitation.