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See all Organizations by whether they have an Open or free statement.

Find all with an open or free statement. (yes)

Find all without an open or free statement. (no)

What is an "Open or free statement"?

Certain sites call themselves open, free, or libre (or variations thereof). These sites claim that, in some capacity, some or all of their resources are open or free to the public.

It is a different issue of whether they actually are open, or how open, since there are various ways the term is used. The actual level of openness (whether the resource is free for the user to reproduce, change, build upon, or distribute) is dependent on how the material is licensed.

Regardless, it will be interesting to see how many organizations and sites identify themselves as an open educational resource, and of these organizations, how many license their material to reflect that statement.

What does "yes" and "no" mean?

"yes" means we have marked these sites as having an "open or free statement". These include government web sites that declare most of their material is in the public domain.

"no" means we could not find an open or free statement.

Disclaimer

The "open or free statement" does not necessarily correspond with the actual openness of the resource. The question we are asking here is: does the site (or organization) identify itself as an open resource? There are varying degrees of openness, and many organizations regard themselves as "open" even if their material is fully restricted under copyright law. In the same vein, some organizations encourage more than fair use of their material under licenses such as the Creative Commons Attribution License---which allows you to copy, distribute, transmit and even adapt the work, as long as you give proper attribution to the author.

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+See all [[#Organizations with Open or free statement? | Organizations by whether they have an Open or free statement]].
+:Find all with an open or free statement. ([[:Special:SearchByProperty/Open or Free Statement/yes|yes]])<br/>
+:Find all without an open or free statement. ([[:Special:SearchByProperty/Open or Free Statement/no|no]])
+=== What is an "Open or free statement"? ===
+Certain sites call themselves open, free, or libre (or variations thereof). These sites claim that, in some capacity, some or all of their resources are open or free to the public.
+It is a different issue of whether they actually ''are'' open, or ''how'' open, since there are various ways the term is used. The actual level of openness (whether the resource is free for the user to reproduce, change, build upon, or distribute) is  dependent on how the material is licensed.
+Regardless, it will be interesting to see how many organizations and sites identify themselves as an open educational resource, and of these organizations, how many license their material to reflect that statement.
+=== What does "yes" and "no" mean? ===
-Certain sites call themselves open/free/libre/etc., or state that some of their resources are such.  We have marked these sites as having an "open or free statement"---so they are marked "yes".
+"'''yes'''" means we have marked these sites as having an "open or free statement". These include government web sites that declare most of their material is in the [[public domain]].
-The allowed values for this property are:
+"'''no'''" means we could not find an open or free statement.
-* [[Allows value:=yes]]
-* [[Allows value:=fair use]]
-* [[Allows value:=no]]
+=== Disclaimer ===
-If we could not find such a statement, then we marked the site with a "no".
+The "open or free statement" does not necessarily correspond with the actual openness of the resource. The question we are asking here is: does the site (or organization) identify itself as an open resource? There are varying degrees of openness, and many organizations regard themselves as "open" even if their material is fully restricted under copyright law. In the same vein, some organizations encourage more than [[fair use]] of their material under licenses such as the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution License]---which allows you to copy, distribute, transmit and even adapt the work, as long as you give proper attribution to the author.
-In some instances regarding governmental sites, a government license is stressed in the "terms of use". The site's resources are also stated to be open or free for non-commercial or educational uses. In these cases, fair use* is being made explicit. Accordingly we have marked it so.
-The "open or free statement" does not always correspond with actual openness of the resource. Here, we are more concerned with whether the site identifies itself as an open resource, regardless of whether the site's resource are ''actually'' open.
+This is a property of type [[Has type::String|String]].
-*Fair use is a part of copyright law. Even for "all rights reserved" copyright, fair use is permitted. For details, see the United States definition of fair use on their copyright page:
+The allowed values for this property are:
+* [[Allows value:=no]]
+* [[Allows value:=yes]]
+* [[Allows value:=yes - government]]
+* [[Allows value:=unknown]]
-http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html
+== Organizations with Open or free statement? ==