The licenses listed below seek to apply the basic idea underlying Free Software to transfer to other categories of work. Since there is no generally accepted Open Content Definition, the licenses are very heterogeneous.
- Apple's Common Documentation License (v. 1.0): https://web.archive.org/web/20060323013933/https://opensource.apple.com/cdl/
- Creative Commons Attribution 1.0: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/legalcode
- Creative Commons Attribution 2.0: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode
- Creative Commons Attribution 2.5: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/legalcode
- Creative Commons Attribution 3.0: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
- Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives 1.0: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/1.0/legalcode
- Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives 2.0: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/legalcode
- Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives 2.5: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/legalcode
- Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives 3.0: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/legalcode
- Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives 4.0 International: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/legalcode
- Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 1.0: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/1.0/legalcode
- Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 2.0: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/legalcode
- Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 2.5: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/legalcode
- Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode
- Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode
- Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 1.0: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/legalcode
- Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 2.0: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/legalcode
- Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 2.5: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/legalcode
- Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 3.0: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/legalcode
- Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial NoDerivatives 4.0 International: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
- Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 1.0: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/legalcode
- Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 2.0: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/legalcode
- Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 2.5: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/legalcode
- Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 3.0: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode
- Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial ShareAlike 4.0 International: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode
- Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 1.0: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/legalcode
- Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 2.0: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode
- Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 2.5: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/legalcode
- Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
- Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode
- Creative Commons Licenses: http://creativecommons.org/licenses
- Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
- Digital Peer Publishing Lizenz 1.0 (DPPL): https://www.hbz-nrw.de/produkte/open-access/lizenzen/dppl/dppl/DPPL_v1_de_02-2004
- Digital Peer Publishing Lizenz 2.0 (DPPL): https://www.hbz-nrw.de/produkte/open-access/lizenzen/dppl/dppl/DPPL_v2_de_06-2004
- Digital Peer Publishing Lizenz 3.0 (DPPL): https://www.hbz-nrw.de/produkte/open-access/lizenzen/dppl/dppl/DPPL_v3_de_06-2004
- Digital Peer Publishing Licence 3.0 (DPPL): https://www.hbz-nrw.de/produkte/open-access/lizenzen/dppl/fdppl/f-DPPL_v3_en_11-2008
- Freie Digital Peer Publishing Lizenz - "freie DPPL" 1.0 (f-DPPL): https://www.hbz-nrw.de/produkte/open-access/lizenzen/dppl/fdppl/f-DPPL_v1_de_11-2004
- Freie Digital Peer Publishing Lizenz - "freie DPPL" 3.0 (f-DPPL): https://www.hbz-nrw.de/produkte/open-access/lizenzen/dppl/dppl/DPPL_v3_de_11-2008
- Free Digital Peer Publishing License 3.0 (f-DPPL): https://www.hbz-nrw.de/produkte/open-access/lizenzen/dppl/dppl/DPPL_v3_en_11-2008
- Modulare Digital Peer Publishing Lizenz 1.0 (m-DPPL): https://www.hbz-nrw.de/produkte/open-access/lizenzen/dppl/mdppl/m-DPPL_v1_de_11-2004
- Modulare Digital Peer Publishing Lizenz 3.0 (m-DPPL): https://www.hbz-nrw.de/produkte/open-access/lizenzen/dppl/mdppl/m-DPPL_v3_de_11-2008
- Modular Digital Peer Publishing Licence 3.0 (m-DPPL): https://www.hbz-nrw.de/produkte/open-access/lizenzen/dppl/mdppl/m-DPPL_v3_en_11-2008
- EFF Audio Public License (v. 1.0.1): https://web.archive.org/web/20060220142104/http://www.eff.org/IP/Open_licenses/20010421_eff_oal_1.0.html
- electronic Music Public License: http://web.archive.org/web/20050408042334/http://www.killerfish.de/fys/empl/empl_de.html
- Ethymonics Free Music License: https://web.archive.org/web/20040209194229/http://www.ethymonics.co.uk/fml.html
- Free Art License: https://web.archive.org/web/20080704173805/http://www.artlibre.org/licence.php/lalgb.html
- FreeBSD Documentation License: http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-doc-license.html
- GNU Free Documentation License (FDL) (v. 1.1): http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.1.html
- GNU Free Documentation License (FDL) (v. 1.1): http://nautix.sourceforge.net/docs/fdl.de.html (inoffizielle deutsche Übersetzung)
- GNU Free Documentation License (FDL) (v. 1.2): http://www.giese-online.de/gnufdl-de.html (inoffizielle deutsche Übersetzung)
- GNU Free Documentation License (FDL) (v. 1.2): http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html
- GNU Free Documentation License (FDL) (v. 1.3): http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
- Guy Hoffman's license: http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp/hoffman_license.html
- ifrOSS Freie Lizenz für Texte und Textdatenbanken (IFL Text): https://github.com/ifrOSS/Lizenzcenter/blob/Neue-Gliederung/IFL
- Linux Documentation Project Copying License: http://tldp.org/LDP-COPYRIGHT.html
- LinuxTag Green Open Music Licence: http://openmusic.linuxtag.org/modules/freecontent/content/openmusic/green.html
- LinuxTag Yellow Open Music License: http://openmusic.linuxtag.org/modules/freecontent/content/openmusic/yellow.html
- Lizenz "Freie Kunst": https://web.archive.org/web/20081118201323/http://artlibre.org/licence.php/lalde.html (Übersetzung der Free Art License)
- Lizenz für die freie Nutzung unveränderter Inhalte: http://www.ifross.org/Lizenzen/LizenzFuerUnveraenderteInhalte.html
- Lizenz für die nichtkommerzielle Nutzung von Inhalten an Schulen und Hochschulen (MuSofT): http://www.ifross.org/Lizenzen/MuSoft-Lizenz.htm
- Lizenz für die Nutzung von Inhalten in bestimmten Nutzerkreisen: http://www.ifross.org/Lizenzen/Lizenz%20bestimmte%20Nutzerkreise.htm
- Lizenz für Freie Inhalte: http://www.ifross.org/Lizenzen/LizenzFuerFreieInhalte.html
- Open Content License (OPL): https://web.archive.org/web/20140608191625/http://www.opencontent.org:80/opl.shtml
- Open Directory License: https://web.archive.org/web/20011106104708/http://dmoz.org:80/license.html
- Open Game License (v. 1.0a): http://www.opengamingfoundation.org/ogl.html
- Open Publication License (v. 1.0): http://opencontent.org/openpub
- Open Source Music License (v. 1.5) (OSML): https://web.archive.org/web/20120818042338/http://www.rootrecords.org:80/licenses.html
- Public Documentation License (PDL): http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/PDL.html