SpaceX photos are now available for anyone to use and share as the privately held space company has put its images in the public domain at the stroke of a tweet. The chief executive of the company Elon Musk, who is also the chief executive of Tesla Motors Inc., over the weekend, first tweeted that the images would be now available under a Creative Commons License, which can be restrictive.

SpaceX has opened a Flickr channel that will show all Space X photos and will make it available to the public at no charge. Through NASA, people have been seeing space photos among others, since their photos are in the public domain, anyone can use them.

And, now that Space X has made their pictures available to the public as well, copyright activists are worried that it will cost the legacy of public domain photos.

Though, according to Space X, this will not be applicable to their Flickr channel as the photos on Flickr will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution license, which means the photos are not going to be released in public domain.

But, the profile page of SpaceX has said that the photos "are being made available to the public and news media with no restrictions".

SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk has given confirmation that the photos are really in the public domain as in a tweet, Musk has said, "Just changed them to full public domain".

There still remains a question as to whether other space companies will follow through in releasing their own photos on public domain or not.

SpaceX was the first company to fund and successfully send a non-governmental spacecraft to the International Space Station and is currently on contract with NASA in resupplying International Space Station through its Dragon capsule.

Further, SpaceX has also won a contract from NASA under which it is allowed to develop a space taxi for American astronauts.