I'm reminded of that long discussion also in Parabola's mailing lists when their social contract was being remade.
If I recall correctly, both Parabola and Hyperbola seem to be describing a practice which is similar to my personal one: I'm a listener/reader/watcher/viewer of at-least-shareable non-functional data. However, I try to make my works fit in free/libre culture --- and this also includes provide complete corresponding source files even if the license doesn't demand me to (such as the CC licenses, which don't have such requirement, not even BY-SA). In this paragraph, the term "at-least-shareable" means those works that have half of freedom 2, this is the minimum requirement for free/libre software movement[1][2]. However, the GNU FSDG wants at least the entirety of freedom 2 for those non-functional works. I cannot speak for those who wrote the GNU FSDG, but I think this requirement is made such that people can sell exact copies of the entire system distribution. One challenge everyone here faces I suppose --- and I'm no exception --- is how to draw the line on what is functional or not. This paragraph is not exhaustive, but these I know are functional: software, documentation (including video or audio used for teaching), scripts, text fonts, models with shading, 3D objects that can be printed and these materials used in practical jobs (drinking, eating, fixing other things), spreadsheets, color profiles. However, some non-functional data also has interesting capabilities that deserve recategorization, and since we are in a development mailing list I'm not recommending any of these software to the end user and so I can say their names: Frogatto is an example of non-free game which has maps with scripting elements. The Battle for Wesnoth is (last time I checked) a free/libre game with similar particularity (see [3] for a note on the things I'm currently ignoring). Of course for distros such as gNewSense --- which as far as I know follows the Definition of Free Cultural Works (which defines what "free culture" is) ---, they can stretch the free/libre software definition to non-functional works and simply drop the entire previous parapgraph, and as such they don't need to think "is this file functional data?". With all this said, I hope I have clarified what Hyperbola possibly means with the wording about free culture that they use. [1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/google-engineering-talk#freedom-2-moral-dilemma [2] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/google-engineering-talk#freedom-2-spirit-of-good-will [3] For simplicity sake, I'm completely ignoring the recent issue about TBfW changing the licensing terms of the new content in their add-ons repository, for which the game itself has integration with such location to get extensions more easily (similar to what Mozilla Firefox, NodeJS's npm, Python's pip and many others have by default), because this repositories alone are subject of another thread -- - Formas de contato: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno#vCard - Ativista do /software/ livre (não confundir com gratuito). Avaliador da liberdade de /software/ e de /sites/. - Arquivos que aceito: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno#Arquivos - Contribuições à sociedade: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno#Contributions - Gosta do meu trabalho? Contrate-me ou doe algo para mim! https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno#Suporte - Use comunicações sociais federadas padronizadas, onde o "social" permanece independente do fornecedor. #DeleteWhatsApp. Use #XMPP (https://libreplanet.org/wiki/XMPP.pt), #DeleteFacebook #DeleteInstagram #DeleteTwitter #DeleteYouTube. Use #ActivityPub via #Mastodon (https://joinmastodon.org/). - #DeleteNetflix #CancelNetflix. Evite #DRM: https://www.defectivebydesign.org/
