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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.
-Certain sites call themselves open/free/libre/etc. or state that some of their resources are such.
+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.
-The allowed values for this property are:
+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.
-* [[Allows value:=yes]]      (1)
-* [[Allows value:=no]]       (2)
-* [[Allows value:=fair use]] (3)
-(1) 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]].
+=== What does "yes" and "no" mean? ===
-(2) "no" is marked in all instances where we could not find a statement.
+"'''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]].
-(3) "fair use" is reserved for those governmental sites that do not declare their material to be in the public domain, but stress open use for non-commercial or educational purposes.  Since [[fair use]] is being made explicit in these cases, we have marked it as such.
+"'''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.
+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.
+This is a property of type [[Has type::String|String]].
+The allowed values for this property are:
+* [[Allows value:=no]]
+* [[Allows value:=yes]]
+* [[Allows value:=yes - government]]
+* [[Allows value:=unknown]]
+== Organizations with Open or free statement? ==