Open license

Quality:

Free license - type of license used for open content or open software. Article “Open license” in Simple English Wikipedia has 19.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 6 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Open license”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 572 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 14 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1992 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #777 in August 2024
• Global: #3872 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2880 in July 2020
• Global: #101782 in October 2014

There are 19 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Free license		48.8048
2	French (fr) Licence libre		44.4073
3	Russian (ru) Свободная лицензия		36.1928
4	Polish (pl) Wolna licencja		29.8129
5	Italian (it) Licenza libera		26.5508
6	Ukrainian (uk) Вільна ліцензія		23.4121
7	Korean (ko) 자유 라이선스		20.9502
8	German (de) Freie Lizenz		20.636
9	Portuguese (pt) Licença livre		20.397
10	Finnish (fi) Avoin lisenssi		20.046

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Free license		597 918
2	Portuguese (pt) Licença livre		497 243
3	French (fr) Licence libre		453 952
4	Russian (ru) Свободная лицензия		272 653
5	Italian (it) Licenza libera		222 015
6	German (de) Freie Lizenz		123 869
7	Ukrainian (uk) Вільна ліцензія		21 411
8	Polish (pl) Wolna licencja		21 053
9	Thai (th) สัญญาอนุญาตเสรี		11 579
10	Simple English (simple) Open license		9 300

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Free license		2 733
2	Italian (it) Licenza libera		1 844
3	Portuguese (pt) Licença livre		1 010
4	French (fr) Licence libre		832
5	Russian (ru) Свободная лицензия		609
6	German (de) Freie Lizenz		310
7	Simple English (simple) Open license		109
8	Arabic (ar) رخصة حرة		58
9	Polish (pl) Wolna licencja		55
10	Czech (cs) Svobodná licence		48

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Licence libre		153
2	Portuguese (pt) Licença livre		84
3	English (en) Free license		81
4	German (de) Freie Lizenz		80
5	Russian (ru) Свободная лицензия		56
6	Italian (it) Licenza libera		36
7	Ukrainian (uk) Вільна ліцензія		17
8	Polish (pl) Wolna licencja		11
9	Simple English (simple) Open license		10
10	Czech (cs) Svobodná licence		8

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Free license		5
2	Portuguese (pt) Licença livre		1
3	Arabic (ar) رخصة حرة		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Azad lisenziya		0
5	Czech (cs) Svobodná licence		0
6	German (de) Freie Lizenz		0
7	Persian (fa) پروانه آزاد		0
8	Finnish (fi) Avoin lisenssi		0
9	French (fr) Licence libre		0
10	Croatian (hr) Otvorena dozvola		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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