About non-functional data, perhaps we ended up talking about
different movements when approaching the relevant questions...

I'm not for free culture. However, "free culture" is different from
"non-funcional data for non-commercial redistribution". Most people
think that they're the same (and in fact I was caught by that mistake
for almost 5 years).

One of the reasons why I don't follow the free culture anymore is that
they apply the same four freedoms of functional data to non-functional
data, and this at the current stage of overal non-functional data that
would respect the same four freedoms, would only leave us with some
scattered cultural works that no collection has provided yet, not even
Jamendo. Besides, we would have to ask every single artist to
distribute the complete corresponding source files of their work, and
if they do so and use a file format only used mainly by non-free
software then, according to the Definition of Cultural Works, it
doesn't belong to the free culture[1].

Besides, the Definition of Free Cultural Works has different approved
licenses if compared to the free software movement (or free functional
data movement, for a broader coverage). For example, where the free
software movement accepts Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs for
personal opinion[2], th free culture movement considers it to be
non-free[3]. Another example is that they don't accept the GNU FDL
entirely, just when the licensor (copyright holder) chooses to remove
some invariant sections[4].

For the free software movement, however, the only freedom that
non-functional data should have is the freedom to be redistributed
non-commercially[5]. That is, the freedom to be shared, legally.
There's a special case for such non-functional data, when being
included in a free system distribution, it must have the freedom to be
redistributed both commercial and non-commercially[6].

[1] http://freedomdefined.org/Definition#Defining_Free_Cultural_Works
[2] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#OpinionLicenses
[3] http://freedomdefined.org/Licenses#Commentary_on_non-free_licenses
[4] http://freedomdefined.org/Licenses#GNU_Free_Documentation_License
[5]
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/google-engineering-talk.html#copyright-art-vs-software
[6]
http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.en.html#non-functional-data

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