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This page is currently inactive and is retained for historical reference. Due to the new licensing provisions, most content on this page cannot be used on Wikipedia. External content must be licensed under either both the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License and the GNU Free Documentation License, or just the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License. Transition clauses in GFDL 1.3 have now expired.

The following resources appear either to be licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, or under a license which allows copying under the GFDL, and are therefore available to be used as resources for Wikipedia articles as long as the source is attributed. This list includes images, text and all other media files.

Note that these are not public domain resources: see Wikipedia:Public domain resources and Wikipedia:Public domain image resources for these.

This Google search attempts to find documents with GFDL license grant boilerplate.

• Wikipedia - over ten million articles in more than two hundred languages: currently the #1 GFDL corpus access point.
• Wikinfo - except where material is marked as per some other license like Creative Commons or explicit permission of the copyright holder.
• The Metaweb
• Some sites that use Wikipedia as a source may have added to our content. Under the GFDL, we can copy this content back to Wikipedia.

• Ad*Access from Duke University. (See: explanation about Fair Use).

• WebMuseum, http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/ : a large art resource. Their license agreement explicitly allows (under point 7) copying of their articles under the GNU FDL. The photos of the artwork is a little more complicated; see the license for more details.

• Appropedia - Appropriate technology wiki
• Envirowiki - environmental wiki.
• Greenlivingpedia - sustainable living wiki.

• The Anarchist FAQ, http://www.oocities.com/CapitolHill/1931/ : Contains much information on anarchism, but be careful as it is advocating a particular viewpoint.
• The Encyclopedia of Marxism and other resources at marxists.org
  • This seems to be only valid for text, not for images, as discussed here: Wikipedia_talk:Public_domain_image_resources#marxists.org. --Svencb 09:41, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Anarchopedia
• Disinfopedia, containing information about organisations influencing public opinion, at disinfopedia.org Note that many of these articles would violate Wikipedia's NPOV policy; special care is needed when copying to Wikipedia from this resource.
  • When using material from Disinfopedia, you may wish to use the following as an attribution line [1]:

''{{disinfopedia}}''

• Infoshop Open Wiki - Infoshop.org's wiki contains many articles about history and politics.

• Japanese History Documentation Project at http://www.openhistory.org/jhdp/
• I hereby grant all Wikipedia editors the right to place the material I have written that is linked to from http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/pages.html under GNU/FDL for inclusion in Wikipedia. Warning! This does not extend to any of the articles written by others (recognizable by having DG, GL or RH after the title). Only the work written by me (either having nothing or AE after the title) is usable as such; the others may not be used commercially. Andre Engels 04:33, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Use {{Discoverers Web}} to put an attribution line in an incorporated article. -- Taku 05:35, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)

• FreeDB, http://freedb.org : a database of compact disc track listings.
• Last.fm, http://last.fm. Artist descriptions are under GFDL.

The Philosophy Physics Metaphysics of Space website has a lot of quotes and images of famous philosophers and scientists from past 2,500 years that are released as GNU FDL. Also see: http://www.spaceandmotion.com/copyright-copyleft-gnu-free-license.htm

• Pointie.com - Free high resolution photos for commercial and personal use
• The Pompeii and Masada galleries by Elizabeth E. Thomas and Nathan Srebro have been licensed under the FDL in private agreement with User:Eloquence. When using photos from these, please especially take care to add an FDL-compliant attribution notice like this: "Elizabeth Thomas, eli at eli-nati dot com, September 2002"
  • Pompeii
  • Masada
• I snapped some photos of vegetation while in the wilds of Sweden. If anyone can identify them and would find them useful for illustrating Wikipedia articles, consider them FDL'd. --Brion 05:11, 7 August 2003 (UTC)[reply]
• I have just put 10k+ photos under the FDL so they can be used here, I'm not going to have time to put many up here so if others want to do so please help your self :-) --ChrisCroome 16:22, 8 August 2003 (UTC)[reply]
• Dr Adam Carr has agreed to license his web site under the GFDL as long as "the source is credited and sourced". There are quite a few photos of various European historical sites there: http://www.adam-carr.net/pixtableindex.html. He gave permission on my talk page today. Alex756 06:06, 29 Setember 2003 (UTC)

This gives me an incentive to get the damn gallery finished :) Adam 06:22, 29 September 2003 (UTC)[reply]

• http://www.openhistory.org/pics - Pictures of Japan. See what links here of pictures section of OpenHistory for photos imported to Wikipedia.
• http://fam-tille.de/freizeit.html - Andreas Tille has images of places in France, Italy, Norway, Great Britain, Austria and Iceland as well as images of the Harz mountain range and of Germany in general, he can be contacted for larger versions.

Christianity

• Creation Wiki
• OrthodoxWiki Eastern Christianity - also licensed under Creative Commons.

• Free Roleplaying Game Community (or FRPGC) is a resource listing pen-and-paper roleplaying games published under the GFDL or compatible licenses. It also works to publish its own RPG material under the GFDL.

• Stephen J. Ramsay's dissertation, "Algorithmic Criticism" at http://busa.village.virginia.edu/algocrit/diss/diss.html

Computers

• Large collection of valuable free stock photos
• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist is an introductory programming textbook using a choice of C++, Python, Java or Logo.
• Programming from the Ground Up is an introductory programming textbook that uses x86 assembler and linux as its platform.
• Dorando game emulator database, http://dorando.emuverse.com/ : website and information are covered by GFDL.
• Free Online Dictionary of Computing, http://www.foldoc.org/ : has been relicensed under the GFDL at our request. A copy of the e-mail granting permission can be found here.
• Introduction to Computer Programming, http://www.isd197.org/sibley/cs/icp/
• Linux Systems Administrators Guide, http://people.debian.org/~bagpuss/sag/
• See Wikipedia:History of computing/Permission -- http://www.ox.compsoc.net/~swhite/history.html
• Mono Project - Mono's official homepage.
• MonoDevelop's official homepage - http://www.monodevelop.com
• Overview of the GNOME Platform - http://developer.gnome.org/doc/guides/platform-overview/platform-overview.html
• OpenSUSE's homepage.

Physics

• Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein

Psychology

• Wikisocion: The Free Socionics Encyclopedia, a collaborative project

Vedic Astrology and Vastu

• [http://www.planet9.co, dedicated wiki on both subjects.

• "Sun, Surf and Sandstone, A Rockclimber's Guide to Sydney"

• Ultipedia.org Ultipedia.org, a wiki dedicated to capturing knowledge and culture surrounding Ultimate (sport)

• The Association for Progressive Communications' "Participating With Safety; A series of briefings on information security and online safety for civil society organisations" at http://secdocs.net/manual/lp-sec/.
• The owner of World Coin Gallery grants us full permission to use any coin images from his webpages. These images can be used for articles about coins. But some of the coins are commemorative and can be used for other things, such as Luis Frois. See User:Kingturtle/World Coin Gallery for more information and details
• Dictionary on Alernative Medicine
• Jewish Women's Association
• Jewish Women's Association

• PicFindr.com - A free image search engine includes some GFDL images. You cannot restrict search to only GFDL, however.

• Wikipedia:List of GFDL content on the Internet