I'd say that providing source is more than a courtesy. There's a website at freedomdefined.org that discusses this, where availability of source data is a prerequisite to being considered free. The Free Software Movement has already realized the importance of providing the original source material so that people can have any meaningful ability to exercise their freedoms to modify it. It seems that the Free Culture Movement, in contrast, hasn't fully grappled this just yet.

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