free culture is about sharing. its often reduced to a discussion about licenses and its good to think about it without thinking about licenses while simultaneously using them
licences are not free culture. they are a mechanical device but do nothing to encourage sharing in their own right. sharingis a personal / cultural issue with many uplifting moments as well as many pain points. the pain eventually turns out to be the most rewarding path if you can weather it. adam > Hi Gene, > > It's common for the work to be available in both gratis and for a cost > forms. The obvious example is a hardcopy book and an ebook. Sometimes > identical content is available gratis and non-gratis - for example, gratis > MP3s on Jamendo and those same MP3s for $1 each in the Apple store. But > it's not unusual - particularly with software - for it only to be > available > for cost. The journal *Fantastique Unfettered *is CC BY-SA but only > available for a charge. > > Unfortunately, another common scenario is for the gratis version to be FLO > but the for a cost version to combine FLO and non-FLO content. For > example, > the print version of *Dungeon World *combines text under CC Attribution > with unlicensed images. > > Cheers, > Chris > > *Chris Sakkas > **Admin of the FOSsil Bank wiki <http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/> and the > Living > Libre blog <http://www.livinglibre.com> and Twitter > feed<https://twitter.com/#%21/living_libre> > .* > > > On 12 July 2013 08:32, Gene Shackman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Some FLO works are not free of charge? I didn't know that. Is that >> common? >> So they can cost and still be FLO? >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 10:26 PM PDT Chris Sakkas wrote: >> >> >Hey folks, >> > >> >I've updated: http://okfnpad.org/UEVd4jV2cB >> > >> >Including a one-page summary, more discussion about what the free in >> free >> >software/culture means >> >> _______________________________________________ >> okfn-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss >> Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss >> > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss > _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss
