Libre Culture

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What is libre culture?

Libre culture is all about empowering people. While the general philosophy stems greatly from the free software movement, libre culture is much broader and encompasses other aspects of culture such as music, movies, food, technology, etc.

Some beliefs include but aren't limited to:

That copyright should expire after a certain period of time.
That knowledge should be available to people, not locked away.
That no entity should have unjust control or possession of others.
That mass surveillance is about mass control, not justice.
That we can all band together to help liberate each other.

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Rules

I've looked into the ways other forums handle rules, and I've distilled their policies down into two simple ideas.

Please show common courtesy: Let's make this community one that people want to be a part of.
Please keep posts generally on topic
No NSFW content
When sharing a Libre project, please include the name of its license in the title. For example: “Project name and summary (GPL-3.0)”

Libre culture is a very very broad topic, and while it's perfectly okay for a conversation to stray, I do ask that we keep things generally on topic.

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Are there actually any software that's free as in freedom but not free as in beer? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As in software that's licensed under a open source copyleft license, but costs money to run that's beyond an optional request for a donation. I can see this happening with libre hardware since it still costs money to manufacture even if the design is free, but with software, wouldn't someone immediately fork the project to remove the payment requirement?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago

FOSS tends to be paid for beforehand or for support.

RHEL, for example, provides an excellent OS with support.

Godot provides anyone with the ability to make games, but when a big company wants it extended so their game can be better, they pay money upfront, so the Godot team is - for those companies who want more - free as in 'free speech', but they also pay for work.

Lastly, for the sake of completeness, there are games which were paid for, and later gained a GPL licence.

People have mentioned 'donations', but I'm not sure if that amounts to any real development. Maybe it does, but the so-called 'donations' to the Linux foundation aren't typically charitable, but made by corporations who use Linux to make money, so they're more similar to Godot than actual charity.