Free content, orfree information, is any kind of work,artwork, or othercreative content which does not have lots oflegalrestrictions about how people can use it. People havefreedom to make changedversions of the content, give changed and not changed versions of the content to others, andsell copies of the content and changed versions of it.[1] The author of free content does not use all of hiscopyright monopoly, he gives many of the rights to others. The articles inWikipedia are free content.
Free software is different from free music or text, because it is often much more difficult to understand and change a program if one does not have itssource code, than it is to change a song or a text. Because of that, the source code of free software must always be easy to receive, or the software will not be free. However, source code for pictures, movies and music can also exist and be given to others. Choosing what to call a “source code” is sometimes important when publishing a work under acopyleftlicense.
