MediaWiki:Licenses

subst:No license from license selector|Don't know|I do not know the license
subst:No license from license selector|Somewebsite|Found the image somewhere
subst:Permission from license selector|The copyright holder gave me permission to use this work only in Wikipedia articles
subst:Non-commercial from license selector|The copyright holder only allows this work to be used for non-commercial and/or educational purposes
Your own work:
- Allow non-commercial use, commercial use, and modifications as long as others credit you and share alike:
  - self|cc-by-sa-4.0|Own work, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0
  - self|cc-by-sa-4.0,3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0|Own work, multi-license with CC-BY-SA-4.0 and older
  - self|cc-by-sa-4.0|GFDL|migration=not-eligible|Own work, multi-license with CC-BY-SA-4.0 and GFDL
- Allow non-commercial use, commercial use, and modifications as long as others credit you:
  - self|cc-by-4.0|Own work, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
- Reserve no rights:
  - self|cc-zero|Own work, release into public domain under the CC-Zero license
Freely licensed:
- cc-by-sa-4.0|Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0
- cc-by-4.0|Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
- cc-by-sa-2.0|Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0
- cc-by-2.0|Creative Commons Attribution 2.0
- Wikipedia-screenshot|Wikipedia web page screenshot
Public domain:
- Copyright expired:
  - PD-old|Author died more than 100 years ago
  - PD-art|- Photo of a two-dimensional work whose author died more than 100 years ago
  - PD-US-expired|First published in the United States before January 1, 1928
- Not covered by copyright:
  - PD-USGov|Work of a U.S. government agency
  - PD-text|Simple typefaces, individual words or geometric shapes
  - PD-textlogo|Logos with only simple typefaces, individual words or geometric shapes
Unacceptable fair use:
- subst:rfu|Fair use image of a living person
- subst:rfu|Fair use image of an existing building
Non-free / fair use - read WP:NONFREE before using any of the following tags:
- Non-free 2D art|Two-dimensional art
- Non-free 3D art|Three-dimensional art
- Non-free computer icon|Computer icon
- Non-free currency|Currency that may be copyrighted
- Non-free biog-pic|Deceased person
- Non-free logo|Logo
- Non-free audio sample|Music sample
- Non-free promotional|Promotional material
- Non-free stamp|Postage stamp, where copyright depends on the country
  - Non-free USGov-USPS stamp|- U.S. postage stamp from 1978 or later
- Non-free historic image|Historically significant event
- Covers:
  - Non-free album cover|Album or single cover
  - Non-free board game cover|Board game cover
  - Non-free book cover|Book cover
  - Non-free comic|Comic book stuff
  - Non-free video cover|DVD, Blu-Ray Disc, videotape, etc. cover
  - Non-free game cover|Video game cover
  - Non-free magazine cover|Magazine cover (can only be used in the article about the magazine)
  - Non-free newspaper image|Newspaper cover
- Posters:
  - Non-free poster|Any kind of poster
- Screenshots:
  - Non-free film screenshot|Movie screenshot
  - Non-free television screenshot|TV screenshot
  - Non-free title-card|Title card of a movie or TV series
  - Non-free game screenshot|Computer game or video game screenshot
  - Non-free music video screenshot|Music video or music promo screenshot
  - Non-free software screenshot|Software screenshot
    - Non-free Microsoft screenshot|- Screenshot of a Microsoft product
    - Non-free software screenshot|Screenshots of Windows software|- Windows software screenshot
    - Non-free software screenshot|Screenshots of Mac software|- Mac OS software screenshot
    - Non-free software screenshot|Screenshots of Linux software|- Linux software screenshot
  - Non-free web screenshot|Website layout screenshot