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
