> Looking beyond software, The Free Culture movement associated with > Lawrence Lessig prides itself on having created an ecosystem where > people can decide what freedom means to them and use any Creative > Commons licence (including non-libre licences such as those with NC > and ND terms). >
I do not know of any such movement that has pride in being completely vague about licensing this way. Creative Commons simply didn't take a stand about these things when making multiple licenses. There's no such movement that is proud of this. > The "Libre culture movement" is the sub-set which defines freedom in > the same way as it is defined for free / libre software: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libre_culture > > Ironically, the Libre knowledge article has been nominated for > deletion. So take a read soon in case it is: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libre_knowledge > > K Well, the strongest thing is actually "free culture" here as in http://freedomdefined.org > > PS Regarding "open" - too many MOOCs and other resources labelled > "open" which are anything but libre. > > > On 17 March 2015 at 21:22, Aaron Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: >> "Freedom software" is acceptable enough… indeed "free software" is >> broken in that you can't even search for it reliably because of the >> confusion over the term. >> >> Here's my take: https://snowdrift.coop/p/snowdrift/w/en/free-libre-open >> >> I think "libre" is the best overall word, but that the continued >> existence of competing terms means we should embrace them all — as long >> as we're clear that we're not doing so to be neutral, that we stand for >> the ethical values of software freedom and not merely the "Open Source" >> values of code-development processes. >> >> On 03/17/2015 12:13 PM, Patrick Anderson wrote: >>>> It boggles my mind that >>>> these simple and so important ideas about software and freedom, which are >>>> so >>>> obvious to me, are so far out of the reach of so many people. >>> >>> It boggles my mind that we refuse to acknowledge most people *already* >>> understand the term "Free Software" to mean "Freeware". >>> >>> Why are we so damn stubborn about such an unimportant detail that >>> almost instantaneously causes nearly universal confusion? >>> >>> Why not coin a new term to overcome that simple hurdle? >>> >>> I propose the term "Freedom Software". It is more descriptive >>> and will likely even create a certain amount of curiosity. >>> >>> As it is, we are trying to call a rose a cabbage and wondering >>> why nobody gets it... >>> >>> Sincerely, >>> Patrick Anderson >>> Economic Systems Engineer >>> http://CrossCrowdPredictiveProduction.github.io >>> >>
