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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When sharing a Libre project, please include the name of its license in the title (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I had originally asked in this thread if we should allow non-copyleft open source projects on this community at all, but I didn't get enough responses to come to a decision, so I will still continue to allow non-copyleft until further notice. Instead, I decided on this as the alternative: When sharing a Libre project, please include the name of its license in the title.

For example: "Lemmy: Building a federated alternative to reddit in rust (AGPL-3.0)"

It doesn't have to be formatted exactly like that, but please at least include the acronym of the license, and the version number if there is one. At some point, I will start removing new posts that do not follow this rule, but I won't start doing that right now to allow for a transition period.

I'm open to feedback on this, comment them below.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 years ago

I think that's a good idea

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 years ago

Good balanced decision imho

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago

good idea

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

It's a good guideline or culture to have.

But enforcing it too hard I think is a bad idea. Makes the community become less accessible for most people with a bar to entry.

Not everyone has the full knowledge of licenses and I don't think it's a preferable experience if a somewhat new person of the community just get replies that they have include the license, and they don't know how and where to find it and they have to use time on that.

Or EVEN the only interaction they get to their post is "you don't have the license in your title".

I'd like a wording like "please try to" for such a rule.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

I agree with this. If mods think that enforcement is necessary the rules should at least be made more concise. (only the list, shorter text)