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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Help pick an icon for /c/libre_culture! (lemmy.ml)

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

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I'm trying to add icons to the communities I moderate, and Libre Culture has been a difficult one. Libre culture is more than just open source, and more than even free (libre) software as it includes hardware too, plus non-tech stuff. It's an ideology, one that to my knowledge doesn't have a generally accepted symbol. I've been trying to find an icon that encompasses all of Libre culture, but have been unsuccessful, so I'm asking for help.

Can you recommend an icon that you think effectively represents all of Libre culture? It can either be an existing one from the internet or custom made. My main requirements are that it not be inappropriate, indecent or offensive (should go without saying), and that it be licensed under a libre license, like creative commons.

Feel free to comment your suggestions!

Update: The logo has been chosen! Feel free to give feedback here: https://lemmy.ml/post/51271

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

A more serious proposal, for some artistic person to bring to life perhaps: A common symbol for liberation is the clenched fist. If that could be made more tech-y somehow, it might be pretty representative I think.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (2 children)

I had considered a clenched fist symbol, but it felt too general for this community specifically. If someone can put a techy spin on it, that'd be awesome!

Although, this com,unity isn't just about technology. If a lot of people here are okay with a generic clenched fist symbol, than I'd be happy to use that too!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago

Yeah I think the tech-y aspect should be understood as more of an homage to the historical origins of the movement.

Another option could perhaps be to tweak the Creative Commons logo, which is perhaps the most well-known and recognizable symbol in the libre movement. For example, if "CC was instead made into an infinity symbol it would still be fairly recognizable but also more general.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

If this might come to reality, I think a good idea would be something like a broken fence. From what my teachers taught me libre culture is a political movement which opposes to enclosure, and enclosures began first as a way to take away the common goods of the working class, and then it started to spread across every possible commodity, the difference here is that the good being liberated are generally software.

I'm oversimplifying things but I think y'all get the idea.