Permissive

Permissive works can be shared both in original form and after being adapted, though with some conditions.

Public domain works are very permissive, since there are no copyright restrictions on their use. They are not listed here, however.

Another term for permissive is 'copyfree'.

Openness: Libre

Works and Sources

Works

• Edition Thirteen ● A new take on the 4C System
• Elephants Dream ● A short and surreal movie about an old man and his grandson.
• Elevation of Privilege ● 'The EoP card game helps clarify the details of threat modeling and examines possible threats to software and computer systems.'
• eLife ● "eLife is a unique collaboration between funders and practitioners of research to communicate influential discoveries in the life and biomedical sciences in the most effective way."
• etcc ● 'Remixing the visual arts'
• Exploding Kingdoms ● Inspired by 4th edition D&D.
• Fantastic Classes Codex ● Classes for Dungeon World.
• Fantasy Generators for World of Dungeons and Other Games ● Situation generators for fantasy games.
• Farmbot ● "Humanity’s Open-Source Automated Precision Farming Machine"
• Fate Accelerated Edition ● A lite version of the fractal role-playing game Fate.
• Fate Core System ● An extended version of the fractal role-playing game Fate.
• Fate System Toolkit ● A toolkit for the Fate tabletop RPG.
• Feedback Loops in Game Design ● An infographic by Daniel Solis.
• Final Decrees ● 'Final Decrees is a board game based on a monstrous incompetent bureaucracy.'
• Five By Five ● An original game system and toolkit.
• Fortune Cookies and Nuclear War ● A game written in a paragraph.
• Free Fall ● 'Ramón, a taciturn 12-year-old boy, dream of becoming an astronaut when he grows up. Every night he sneaks away from home to go to his school and dive into its pool, experimenting ingravity as he gently floats, until one jump into the dark water confronts him with the reality of his illusions.'
• Free Knowledge based on Creative Commons Licenses. Consequences, risks and side-effects of the license module 'non-commercial us ● Problems with using the NonCommercial Creative Commons licence term.
• Free to Mix ● 'The guide gives you information, activities and ideas to confidently create a remix from material you know you have the rights to reuse.'
• FreeSouls.cc ● Photos of Joi Ito and writings from others.
• Frontier Encounters ● 'Frontier Encounters presents a wide range of views on how the borders between [China, Russia and Mongolia] are enacted, produced, and crossed.'
• F-Sharp ● The bare bones of FATE.
• Ganakagok Cards ● Cards for the game Ganakagok.
• Genesys System ● A generic rules-light RPG.
• Ghosts ● Your fantasy city is under siege. Play both the living and the dead.
• Go Fast, Turn Left ● You play an alien who gets his or her kicks from speeding.
• GUMSHOE SRD ● 'The document is a reference for game designers, and is not tuned to teach the game, or provide a playable game experience.'
• Gunwave ● A system for playing the angsty teens of a mecha anime series.
• Heroes Vs. Villains ● A collection of 'photos' of supervillains.
• Hierarchy of Interface for Tabletop Games ● How people interact with tabletop games.
• Hoborg ● 'A dieselpunk novel with Spanish-created robot hobos in a balcanized America at the beginning of the XX century.' - that anyone can edit, fork and contribute to.
• House of Masks ● In a far off land where mighty sorcerers dwell, the God-King Castor rules from a castle where the spirit realm and physical realm touch, allowing for powerful magics to happen and for a person’s spirit form to take control of one’s body..
• Income Models for Open Access ● Developing a business model for an open access journal.
• Intellectual Property: Law and the Information Society ● "This book is an introduction to intellectual property law, the set of private legal rights that allows individuals and corporations to control intangible creations and marks—from logos to novels to drug formulae—and the exceptions and limitations that define those rights."
• International Journal of the Commons ● A journal that discusses resources that can be shared and used collectively.
• Introduction to Economic Analysis ● 'This book presents standard intermediate microeconomics material and some material that, in the authors' view, ought to be standard but is not.'
• It Came From The Wide Blue Yonder ● Cthulhu medieval supers.
• It's a Jetsons World ● A book which contrasts extraordinary private innovation with government recalcitrance.
• Jenny Everywhere ● Jenny Everywhere, aka the Shifter, is the world's first open source superhero.
• Keeping On The Borderlands ● A Fiasco playset parodying Dungeons & Dragons.
• Khas Fara, Village of Fear ● An evil witch has taken over a small town.
• La Cura, an Open Source Cure ● "A brain cancer. Some very personal Open Data. An opportunity."
• Let's CC ● A South Korean search engine for Creative Commons materials.
• Libertarian Papers ● A journal of libertarian scholarship.
• Libre: The Open Source Card Game ● 'In a time where time wasn't, Seven Factions struggle for Liberation of the others so that they may live free and without struggle. This is the world of Libre.'
• Linked Open Vocabularies ● '[Y]our entry point to the growing ecosystem of linked open vocabularies (RDFS or OWL ontologies) used in the Linked Data Cloud.'
• Longshot ● A science fiction Western.
• Maki ● "A clean point of interest icon set made especially for cartography."
• Man & Ubermensch ● A fascist super replaces the US president during WWII.
• Media Studies 101 ● Creative Commons crowdsourced textbook.

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Sources

• List of Open Source Video Games ● A page on Wikipedia.
• Lumen Learning ● Open course frameworks: blueprints for teaching with OER
• mathispower4u ● 'This site provides over 2,600 free mini-lessons and example videos with no ads. The videos are organized by course and topic.'
• Miyoung Yi ● A Korean artist
• Move Commons ● 'Move Commons is a simple tool for connecting potential volunteers and contributors to initiatives, collectives and NGOs. '
• Nordic CC Film Festival ● 'The Nordic Creative Commons Film Festival is the first festival organized in the Nordic region for films created and distributed under CC-licenses.'
• NounProject ● Simple vector images.
• OER Knowledge Cloud ● 'The OER Knowledge Cloud has been established to identify, collect, preserve and disseminate available documents of enduring value to researchers, industry, government, scholars, writers, historians, journalists and informal learners.'
• OERu ● 'OERu gives you the chance to study independently, from home, with access to world-class courses from recognised institutions.'
• OnlineComputerBooks.com ● A website with many free ebooks, some of which are open.
• Open Compute Project ● 'A small team of Facebook engineers spent the past two years tackling a big challenge: how to scale our computing infrastructure in the most efficient and economical way possible.'
• Open Course Library ● 'The Open Course Library is a collection of expertly developed educational materials – including textbooks, syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments – in 81 high-enrollment college courses.'
• Open Game Art ● A community dedicated to providing art for open source video games.
• Open Knowledge Foundation ● 'We build tools and communities to promote open knowledge around the world.'
• Open Library of the Humanities ● 'Welcome to the initial ideas hub for the Open LIbrary of Humanities (OLH): a project exploring a PLOS-style model for the humanities and social sciences.'
• Open Policy Network ● 'The mission of the Open Policy Network is to foster the creation, adoption and implementation of open policies and practices that advance the public good by supporting open policy advocates, organizations and policy makers, connecting open policy opportunities with assistance, and sharing open policy information.'
• OpenLibra ● OpenLibra "La Biblioteca Libre online que estabas esperando"
• OpenStax CNX ● A repository of OER.
• Openstax College ● 'OpenStax College offers students free textbooks that meet scope and sequence requirements for most courses.'
• OpenTextBookStore ● 'We scour the Internet for the best quality textbooks issued under open licenses that allow for printing.'
• Pelgrane Press ● An RPG publisher.
• Pratham Books ● A publisher of multicultural and multilingual children's books.
• President of Russia ● The website of the President of the Russian Federation.
• Public Domain Review ● Reviews and catalogues of works in the public domain.
• Public Domain Super Heroes ● A wiki of superheroes and villains that have lapsed into the public domain.
• Public Library of Science (PLOS) ● Scientific and medical knowledge shared with the world.
• Queensland University of Technology ● What it says.
• Rad Geek People's Daily ● 'official state media for a secessionist republic of one.'
• Rafu ● Rafu, or Raffaele Manzo, is a game designer.
• Sage LaTorra ● RPG designer.
• Salvatore Scandurra ● An artist
• Sand & Steam ● An RPG company.
• Saylor Foundation ● A foundation to make education free for all.
• ScienceImage ● 'CSIRO has provided permission for anyone to freely use, repost and transform the collection’s 4000+ high definition images and videos. The library represents more than six decades worth of environmental, industrial, agricultural and technological research images.'
• SPARC ● '[A]n international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system.'
• Spiral Graphics ● The makers of closed software Genetica.
• SpringerOpen ● An open access publisher in medicine, science and technology.
• Standford Engineering Everywhere ● 'SEE programming includes one of Stanford’s most popular engineering sequences: the three-course Introduction to Computer Science taken by the majority of Stanford undergraduates, and seven more advanced courses in artificial intelligence and electrical engineering.'
• TakeOnRules ● A publisher.
• Talis ● A private company in the 'innovation business'.
• Teapot Dome Games ● A publisher of free role-playing games.
• TeknoAXE ● Royalty free music in a variety of genres.
• The Freesound Project ● A database of sounds (not songs).
• The Hill Productions ● A small film company.
• The Libertarian Standard ● A libertarian blog.
• Twine Games ● Online choose your own adventure games.
• Uncensored Interview ● Interviews
• (un)Common Adventure Gallery ● Collection of free-to-publish genre illustrations.
• Wellcome Images ● ' Thousands of years of visual culture made free through Wellcome Images'
• White House ● The website of the President of the United States.

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Licences

• Academic Free License ● A libre licence.
• Apache License ● A permissive free software licence.
• BSD License ● Permissive free software licences.
• Creative Commons ● A non-profit organisation devoted to increasing the number of works available for all to share and adapt.
• Creative Commons Attribution ● A Creative Commons licence which allows copying provided credit is given.
• Jenny Everywhere Declaration ● A declaration that makes a character free for others to use.
• MIT License ● A permissive free software licence from MIT.
• Open Data Commons Attribution ● A permissive libre licence for data.
• Open Government License ● A permissive licence designed by the British Government.
• Open Publication License ● A retired permissive licence.
• Open Works License ● A permissive licence.
• The zlib/libpng License ● A permissive software licence.

Tabletop Games

Works

• Not-Too-Silly Stories ● A rules-light, GMless game designed for children.
• Number Appearing ● A Dungeon World supplement.
• Old Messila ● Billy the Kid is on a train to Old Messila, doomed to hanging in this Hackbird.
• Organic Rules Components ● A role-playing game that promises to model physics and biology.
• Ostermark: The Butterforger ● A surreal game of the law set in the Old World.
• Pollies ● A generic dice-based RPG.
• Powers For Good ● 'Powers For Good is a fast-moving roleplaying game of team superheroics in the style of comic books such as Legion of Superheroes and New X-men, or TV shows like Justice League. Together with your friends you can create an entire team of superheroes in just a few minutes and leap into whatever the GM has stewing.'
• Providence Junction ● A Western LARP of small town secrets.
• Push ● A board game played on a chess or chequers board.
• Quad System ● An RPG.
• Redbox Hack ● A clever reinterpretation of fantasy gaming.
• Return to Maniac Mansion ● A game for Jonathan Walton's Stage One.
• Revolucion ● Chart the course of any revolution, real or imagined, in any time or place.
• Science Fiction Mystery ● An 11-player science fiction LARP.
• Second String Superheroes ● A 12-player LARP about incompetent superheroes.
• Seventh ● A fantasy role-playing game.
• Shadow of Yesterday ● A pioneering RPG where characters are defined by their Keys and Secrets.
• Shadows ● Children accompanied by their formidable Shadows.
• Shakespeare 2985 ● A "science fiction espionage murder mystery do-it-yourself alternate reality game about interpreting poetry and failing thermal dampeners."
• Skeksis Cards for Ganakagok ● Skeksis from the Dark Crystal on cards.
• Slacking through the Sandbox ● How to put together a slacker's sandbox.
• Sneaky Cards ● 'Sneaky Cards is designed to encourage, inspire, or facilitate playful interactions. Breaking up the tedium of everyday life, with small entertaining objectives. Each card is created to be unique and develop different kinds of play.'
• So Now You're a Time Traveler ● A 'simple little two page hack of Cthulhu Dark made to run a stropped down time travel game comparable to Continuum.'
• Standard Method for Tasks Resolution in Role-Playing Games ● "This work is a very simple method for the task resolution during RPG sessions."
• Steampunkfitters ● A roleplaying game that celebrates the sense of possibility in the Victorian era.
• Sufficiently Advanced Technologies ● A 16-player LARP inspired by Doctor Who.
• Super Repo ● 'It’s a comedic superhero game, wherein you play people with superpowers who chose to work a mundane job rather than fight crime.'
• Sweet20 ● Bringing indie sensibilities to the d20 System.
• Take on Establishments ● '[A] collection of physical establishments and locations, brief descriptions (sights, sounds, smells), an NPC, and corresponding moves for Dungeon World.'
• Take on Magic Items ● '"Take On Magic Items" is a collection of magic items for Dungeon World, though a clever game master could easily translate these items into the fantasy system of choice, especially systems that encourage rulings not rules.'
• Tannenberg 4 ● 'Tannenberg 4 is a wargame about the Russian offensive into East Prussia 1914, later known as The Battle of Tannenberg.'
• Telgrathia ● A fantasy game based on Blackjack.
• The Carnival of Dreams ● A Swords Without Master adventure.
• The Devil, John Moulton ● 'The Devil, John Moulton is a game about demon summoning outlaws in the American old west.'
• The GAME System ● The Generic Action Mediation System is designed to give players flexibility in the powers they design.
• The Later Blue Book of Amaxathroth the Cursed ● A Sorcerer supplement.
• The Logic of Tales & Dreams ● Once upon a time, there was a writer who wrote a story game that doesn't exist. This is that game.
• The Plant ● A solo RPG where you play someone crawling around the innards of a power plant.
• Twenty One Turn Hero ● A curious one-page RPG where you face off against dragons and sorcerers.
• Twisted Space ● An encounter for the RPG Dungeons & Dragons 4E.
• Uneven Wings ● a tabletop RPG in which players bid tokens to succeed at competitive tasks
• Unsung Tales ● 'Unsung Tales is a card-based roleplaying game, in which you and your friends will work together to tell stories of mystery and adventure in a Sword and Sorcery world.'
• Wide Stance ● A game about repressed homosexuality, written in five minutes.
• Wordplay Basics ● A straightforward narrative role-playing game.
• Wushu Open ● A game where detailed narration affects your chances of success.

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• @ccess ● An OKFN project to encourage libre open access.
• FATE ● A game system based on the mechanic: dice roll + invoked and tagged Aspects.
• The First 100 Days of Government ● The Abbott Liberal Government's assessment of what it has achieved in its first 100 days.
• Who Needs Access? You Need Access ● An OKFN project to increase open access.