Copyright

Wherever possible the information on this site is made available under free documentation licenses. That doesn't make it copyight free (or "anti-copyright") – which would allow anyone to appropriate it and use for wholly different purposes. Instead the use of open licenses allows copyright material to be made freely available under certain conditions.

Where an author has not agreed to the release of material under an open license then the ordinary restrictions on copyright apply. Each page should clearly state the copyright status so that you can use the material appropriately. The two free documentation licenses we use on the FRAW site are:

• The Gnu Free Documentation License (GFDL); and
  
  
• The Creative Commons Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CCNCSA).

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

The principal difference between these licenses is that the GFDL would 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.