artistic license
Noun
Meaning
artistic license (uncountable)
Alternative spelling of artistic licence
Synonyms
Examples
Most campaigns rely on photographs because the moment you do something that is a graphic interpretation where any artistic license has been taken, I think a lot of people are scared that it's going to be perceived as propaganda.
If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem, and you're screwed.
The OSI recommends that all developers and projects licensing their products with the Artistic License adopt Artistic License 2.0.
This resulted in the Artistic License 2.0 which has been approved as both a free software citation and open source citation license.
This was released as the Clarified Artistic License, and was approved by the FSF.
Whether or not the original Artistic License is a free software license is largely unsettled.