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+title: Licensing, Copyright, and Intellectual Property
+description: Resources and suggestions
+---
+
+*This is an early draft of a licensing guide for our PROSE community. 
+Suggestions, comments,
+and pull requests on [Discord](https://discord.gg/UScmJVa25f) or 
+[GitHub](https://github.com/pretextbook/prose) are very welcome!*
+
+---
+
+What makes an educational product "open source"? While the web allows
+for the easy posting and dissemination of educational products, there
+are additional considerations that creators should be aware of in order
+to maximize the impact and sustainability of their products, particularly
+for works that aim to serve a wide audience and require ongoing maintenance.
+
+This guide is a community service provided by
+[the PROSE Consortium](https://prose.runestone.academy) to our ecosystem of
+creators who wish to produce free and open-source digital products for
+the benefit of STEM education, and should not be considered to be legal advice.
+This guide may include information that is specific to the United States.
+Suggestions, comments,
+and pull requests from the community on [Discord](https://discord.gg/UScmJVa25f) or 
+[GitHub](https://github.com/pretextbook/prose) are very welcome.
+
+## Why not just post my work online?
+
+A core [principle of the PROSE Consortium](https://prose.runestone.academy)
+is the mission to "collaborate on a flexible platform that incorporates new innovations".
+In particular, we envision a future where community members are able to create high-quality 
+educational products that are not locked into any particular format or vendor, and are made
+available to the world's students and educators at no cost. Furthermore, these works
+should be available for other creators to remix and redistribute as part of future 
+educational innovations, as well as for scholars to leverage as part of their educational
+research programs.
+
+To that end, we encourage our community members to not only make their works
+available online, but to explicitly **open-license** and **open-source** their works
+using **open platforms**.
+
+### Open Licensing and Copyright
+
+When you create an educational product, either you or your employer owns the
+**copyright** on that **intellectual property (IP)**.
+
+Often, faculty at academic
+institutions retain ownership of the intellectual property they create, unless this
+IP was created as a requirement of their official duties, such as part of an externally
+sponsored grant. This may vary by organization and the type of IP created (e.g. software
+may have different rules); your faculty handbook may have more information.
+
+Either way, the copyright owner may choose to apply an open **license** on this IP that
+allows non-owners to use this property for their own purposes.
+
+### Open Source
+
+### Open Platforms
+
+## Two Major Kinds of Educational Products
+
+Broadly speaking, the corpus of educational products includes two major categories:
+**documents** and **software**. 
+
+## Licensing for Open-Source Educational Documents
+
+### Creative Commons
+
+<https://creativecommons.org/>
+
+### GNU Free Documentation License
+
+<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3.html>
+
+## Licensing for Open-Source Educational Software
+
+[OSI-Approved Licenses](https://opensource.org/licenses)
+
+### MIT License
+
+<https://opensource.org/license/mit>
+
+### GPL and AGPL
+
+<https://opensource.org/license/gpl-3-0>
+
+<https://opensource.org/license/agpl-v3>
+
+## Additional Reading
+
+- [Copyright and Licensing at PreTeXtBook.org](https://pretextbook.org/doc/guide/html/open-licenses.html)
+
+---
+
+*This guide is licensed under
+[CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
+Here is an example of how to attribute this work:*
+
+> ["Licensing, Copyright, and Intellectual Property"](https://prose.runestone.academy/licensing/)
+> by The PROSE Consortium is licensed under
+> [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).