Spread the Word
This page is a repository of information related to copyfree advocacy, including suggestions for how you can help out.
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First and foremost, we in no way condone spamming or any similar unsolicited (and unwelcome) mass-marketing behavior.
Terminology
It is common for people to refer to a general class of licenses with the term "BSD-like". One of the earliest open source licenses was the original BSD license, so licenses that are substantially similar to the BSD license can accurately be called "BSD-like" within a reasonable range of specificity.
We believe it is better to refer to licenses as "copyfree" when any license that meets the requirements of the Copyfree Standard serves the desired purpose. While most of the so-called BSD licenses are copyfree licenses (excluding the original BSD License), it is not the sole or even highest standard of copyfree policy in a license.
Copyfree licenses should also qualify as both Free Software according to the FSF's Free Software Definition and Open Source Software according to the OSI's Open Source Definition, but they are distinct from either in that both the Free Software Definition and the Open Source Definition admit copyleft licenses and some other non-copyfree licenses as well. As such, when copyleft and other non-copyfree "open source" or "free software" licenses are not a part of what you mean, you should refer to "copyfree" licenses for the sake of specificity and clarity. By the same token, you should refer to "copyleft" when you do not mean to include non-copyleft licenses.
Making a conscious decision to use the term "copyfree" in these ways -- perhaps making the word copyfree a link to this site, when appropriate -- you can effectively help to advocate for copyfree policy, or at least raise awareness of it.
Permanent Links
The simplest way to help advocate copyfree licensing policy for many people is to link to it. Permanent front-page links -- or links on very high-traffic pages -- on your Website would especially help. This can both bring people to the copyfree Website directly and help people find it more indirectly by improving search engine rankings.
You may link using one of the images provided at this site, but if you do so, please copy the image to your own Webserver so that displaying it on your Website will not consume our bandwidth. Examples of image links, with XHTML source, include:
a sidebar button
<a href="http://copyfree.org" title="Copyfree: Unfetter your ideas.">
<img src="http://www.example.com/img/cf_80x15.png"
alt="Copyfree: Unfetter your ideas."
title="Copyfree: Unfetter your ideas." />
</a>
the copyfree logo
<a href="http://copyfree.org" title="Copyfree: Unfetter your ideas.">
<img src="http://www.example.com/img/copyfree_64.png"
alt="Copyfree: Unfetter your ideas."
title="Copyfree: Unfetter your ideas." />
</a>
In each case, replace http://www.example.com/img/ with the path to the image on your own Webserver.
There is also an SVG copyfree logo image that may be used to refer to copyfree policy and licensing.
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