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license

Summary

license ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,006 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • license is a type of contract[2].
  • license is a type of permit[3].
  • license's Commons category is recorded as Licenses[4].
  • license's said to be the same as is recorded as permit[5].
  • license's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Licenses[6].
  • license's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[7].
  • license's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[8].
  • license's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 2[9].
  • license's partially coincident with is recorded as professional certification[10].
  • license's equivalent class is recorded as https://schema.org/Permit[11].
  • license's equivalent class is recorded as http://purl.org/dc/terms/license[12].
  • license's different from is recorded as RightsStatements.org statement[13].
  • license's ACM Classification Code is recorded as 10003470[14].
  • license's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Open Culture / GLAM Glossary[15].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include contract[2] and permit[3].

Why It Matters

license ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,006 views/month).[1] license has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] license is known by 48 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). license. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/license
MLA “license.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/license.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_license_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{license}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/license}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): license — https://4ort.xyz/entity/license (retrieved 2026-04-10)

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  1. 13d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag ['licences', 'licenses']
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: licences, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289941030|licences (#289941030)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n"
  2. 23d ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id h0000040-licence
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0000040-licence, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
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