Since then, ideas of free/open licenses spread into different spheres of society. These definitions were then transformed into licenses, using the copyright as legal mechanism.
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These rights were codified by different groups and organizations for different domains in Free Software Definition, Open Source Definition, Debian Free Software Guidelines, Definition of Free Cultural Works and The Open Definition. The invention of the term "free license" and the focus on the rights of users were connected to the sharing traditions of the hacker culture of the 1970s public domain software ecosystem, the social and political free software movement (since 1980) and the open source movement (since the 1990s). Free licenses are often the basis of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding projects. Most free licenses are worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, and perpetual (see copyright durations).
Without a special license, these uses are normally prohibited by copyright law or commercial license.
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