Licences

Template:Managing content An administrator can enable any/all of the following licences in Administration > Site administration > Plugins > Licences > Manage licences for user selection when publishing a course to Moodle.net or uploading a file from a File Repository.

• The default licence is All rights reserved but this may be changed in the dropdown. The other options are explained in the links below:

• All rights reserved (default option)
• Public domain
• Creative Commons
• Creative Commons - NoDerivs
• Creative Commons - No Commercial NoDerivs
• Creative Commons - No Commercial
• Creative Commons - No Commercial ShareAlike
• Creative Commons - ShareAlike
• Other - licence not already listed

Licences affecting what users see

Note: The licence given to a file when uploaded to Moodle does not in any way affect its visibility on a course. It simply creates the default when it is being re-used elsewhere. This default licence can be changed at the time of display.

See also

• Investigating licenses in Moodle2 blog post from Jenny Gray