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Screenshot of the Free Software program Firefox Developer Edition licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0, running on KDE with window titlebar theme licensed under GNU GPL, and showing public domain LibriVox web page. If the copyright holder(s) (usually the programmers, software company, producer, or broadcaster) do not agree to publish the program under a free license, then screenshots are normally only free if they explicitly license the screenshot (or all screenshots) under a free license. Corel Corp.), in Germany (see Bildrechte: Schutz für Reproduktionen in German Wikipedia), and probably all other countries of the European Union. This may not be true in all jurisdictions, but holds at least in the U.S. If all content shown is in the public domain, then the screenshot is also, because there is no creative contribution added when creating a screenshot. If a screenshot contains icons or content that is non-free, it is normally also not free, but an exception can be made where the content is de minimis. If you do not own the copyright to a piece of software, you may publish a screenshot under a free license only if all the content shown itself has a free license. Thus, screenshots must not be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons unless all content in them is under a free license or in the public domain. Screenshots are derivative works and as such subject to the copyright of the displayed content, may it be a video, television program, or a computer program. If both conditions are not satisfied, then the image is non-free and not yet appropriate for upload to Commons. If either condition is satisfied, that A) the software is freely licensed by the owner, or B) the screen shot is freely licensed by the owner of the software, then the image is appropriate for Commons so long as it is within scope. Decision matrix for determining if a screenshot is appropriate for upload to Commons.

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