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

• 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.'
• Spectrum of Rights ● A cute explanation of how Creative Commons licences work
• 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.
• suicidegirls ● Content from their Flickr stream.
• 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.
• Syria Deeply ● News on the conflict in Syria.
• Tagesschrift ● A simple font designed in two days.
• 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.'
• Teaching Copyright ● 'EFF's Teaching Copyright curriculum was created to help teachers present the laws surrounding digital rights in a balanced way.'
• Tears of Steel ● The results of the Blender Foundation's Mango Project: a sci-fi romance.
• Tears of Steel (Chinese) ● A remake of Blender's Tears of Steel
• Telgrathia ● A fantasy game based on Blackjack.
• The Camera Collection ● "A collection of 100 pixelated camera illustrations for anybody to download and use in whatever way they see fit."
• The Carnival of Dreams ● A Swords Without Master adventure.
• The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925: Theory Of A Genre ● 'In this challenging and far-reaching study, Goyet looks at classic short stories in the context in which they were read at the time: cheap newspapers and higher-end periodicals.'
• The Devil, John Moulton ● 'The Devil, John Moulton is a game about demon summoning outlaws in the American old west.'
• The Digital Public Domain ● "[T]he authors argue that the Public Domain — that is, the informational works owned by all of us, be that literature, music, the output of scientific research, educational material or public sector information — is fundamental to a healthy society."
• 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 Libre Labyrinth ● "Navigating the Maze of Free and NonFree Licenses"
• 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 New Birthday Song Contest ● 'WFMU and the Free Music Archive challenged songwriters everywhere to unseat “Happy Birthday to You” from it’s cultural throne by composing possible replacements. Here are the winners.'
• The Open Book ● 'The Open Book is a crowdsourced publication that introduces the global movement for open knowledge in the words of those who are helping to build it today.'
• The OpenPhoto Project ● Cloud-based storage for your photos on other sites.
• The Plant ● A solo RPG where you play someone crawling around the innards of a power plant.
• The Power of Open ● A book from Creative Commons about how those licences have been used in various projects.
• The Psychology of Emotions, Feelings and Thoughts ● "This book makes the statement that thought, action and feeling can occur in any order, it also puts forth the idea that life is divided into three groups, emotion, thinking, and feeling."
• The Social Media Reader ● 'Culling a broad range and incorporating different styles of scholarship from foundational pieces and published articles to unpublished pieces, journalistic accounts, personal narratives from blogs, and whitepapers, The Social Media Reader promises to be an essential text, with contributions from Lawrence Lessig, Henry Jenkins, Clay Shirky, Tim O'Reilly, Chris Anderson, Yochai Benkler, danah boyd, and Fred von Loehmann, to name a few.'
• Those Funny Funguloids! ● 'Never before has collecting mushrooms been this mildly entertaining. At least not in outer space.'
• Tor ● Browse the Internet anonymously.
• Triangle Wiki ● A wiki about the Triangle Region.
• Trolling Effects ● 'Trolling Effects is a resource for those who have been targeted by patent trolls.'
• Tube ● A movie, still in production.
• 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.
• Understanding Changes in Poverty ● "Understanding Changes in Poverty brings together different methods to decompose the contributions to poverty reduction."
• 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.'
• White House Honey Ale ● Beer brewed on the White House grounds.
• Why Open Education Matters ● A contest where people were asked to 'Create a short video that explains the benefits and promise of Open Educational Resources for teachers, students and schools everywhere.'
• Why the Heck Should I Care about the TPP? ● What it says.
• Wide Stance ● A game about repressed homosexuality, written in five minutes.

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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.