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

• Meet Creative Commons ● A video introducing and explaining Creative Commons.
• Mist-Robed Gate ● 'Which is more important: your desire or your life? In the martial arts underworld of Mist-Robed Gate, you can never have both.'
• Moonshades ● Browser-based single-player fantasy electronic game.
• Muktware ● A Linux magazine.
• MULRAH ● An RPG that has undergone considerable changes in recent versions.
• myPolice Data ● Queensland police force sharing its crimes data.
• Myriad ● A rules-light modular generic RPG.
• Nameless Horror ● A horror RPG.
• National Elevation Data Framework ● 'Digital elevation data which describes Australia's landforms and seabed'
• New Education Highway ● A non-profit working with OER and local educators.
• 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.
• Open Access EBooks ● 'This chapter discusses what Open Access means in the context of e-books, how Open Access e-books can be supported, and the roles that Open Access e-books will play in libraries and in our society.'
• Open Access Explained! ● 'What is open access? Nick Shockey and Jonathan Eisen take us through the world of open access publishing and explain just what it's all about.'
• Open Bibliographic Data Guide ● '[T]he business cases for Open Bibliographic Data – releasing some or all of a library’s catalogue records for open use and re-use by others.'
• Open Data Hackathon How To Guide ● A guide on holding your own hackathon.
• Open Data Handbook ● 'This handbook introduces you to the legal, social and technical aspects of open data. It can be used by anyone but is especially useful for those working with government data. It discusses the why, what and how of open data – why to go open, what open is, and the how to do open.'
• Open Data, Open Society ● A research project about openness of public data in EU local administrations
• Open Dyslexic ● A font that is easier for dyslexic people to read.
• Open Hardware Journal ● A journal about open hardware.
• Open Mission Control Technologies ● The software that NASA used to land Curiosity.
• Open Source Licensing ● ' Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law'
• Open States ● View US legislation.
• Oral Literature in Africa ● 'First published in 1970 by Oxford University Press, this classic study has been hailed as "the single most authoritative work on oral literature”. It traces the history of story-telling in Africa, and brings to life the diverse forms of creativity across the African continent'
• 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.
• Paleobiology Database ● Data and photos of extinct animals and plants.
• Pixelated New Orleans Homes ● "A collection of 100 pixelated images for you to download and use for whatever you want."
• 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.
• Queensland Government Data ● 'The Queensland Government will release as much public data as possible, free to anyone who wishes to use it. This data has been gathered using public money and is the property of the people of Queensland and so, where suitable, we will release it.'
• RecordAGrave ● Photographs and transcriptions of tombstones.
• 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 Comics! ● A comedic superheroes playset for Fiasco.
• Science Fiction Mystery ● An 11-player science fiction LARP.
• Season of Gratitude ● Christmas songs from ccMixter.
• 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."
• Sharing is Liberty ● A blog about copyright reform.
• Sintel ● A brief fantasy film about a girl's love for her dragon.
• Sintel the Game ● A game inspired by the Blender Foundation's movie Sintel.

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Sources

• Wikinews ● "The Wikinews project is a free content news source of the Wikimedia Foundation that seeks to provide content, free of charge, where everyone is invited to contribute reports about events large and small, either from direct experience, or summarized from elsewhere."
• Wikipedia List of Game Engines ● A list of game engines on Wikipedia.
• Wiley Open Access ● A variety of journals published by Wiley.
• World Bank Open Knowledge Repository ● "The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products."
• Yanone ● A young German jack-of-all-trades.
• YouTube ● A video site.
• zero-project ● A collection of musical compositions, audiobooks and songs.

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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.