NOTE For this message, I assume that you have read the four freedoms described in the free/libre software definition.
It must be noted that, when people here say that they are thankful for you for making such decision, they are also going to assume that: for non-functional works you'll give society at least the freedom to share original copies of these works (this is half of freedom 2 according to the free/libre software definition). This "half of freedom 2" is needed because it relates to the good will of society to help their neighbors, this is why we don't recommend the use of words such as "piracy", because these words try to depict sharing as a bad thing, when the bad thing was caused by the proprietor of the content. There is an evolution of this rule of "half of freedom 2" for non-functional data which is defended by free/libre *culture* activists, because they go a step further from free/libre software movement, and so, they demand that every cultural work has to be free/libre, according to the Definition of Free Cultural Works. I'm not a free/libre culture activist myself (not a demander, just a content creator), but being a free/libre culture activist brings us to some interesting advantages and challenges: - Advantage: No need to worry about what is "software"/"functional"/"practical" anymore. Because you're going to make sure that every little thing is free/libre, as defined by the Definition of Free Cultural Works (done by other organization, not the FSF nor the GNU project). - Advantage and challenge: Complete corresponding source files must be provided for everything, and in formats/codecs/standards friendly to free/libre software. No use providing a music in .opus or .ogg format because, although these are indeed free/libre software friendly, they're not the complete corresponding source files in most cases. This is also an advantage because, if done right, society benefits hugely from this. By contrast, if you decide to act only as free/libre software activist, and not as free/libre culture content creator, then we must take the inverse of the first advantage, and also note that you'd be pushing free/libre culture "against the wall" as free/libre culture works become more and more rare to find. -- - [[https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno]] - Palestrante e consultor sobre /software/ livre (não confundir com gratis). - "WhatsApp"? Ele não é livre, por isso não uso. Iguais a ele prefiro Ring, ou Tox. Quer outras formas de contato? Adicione o vCard que está no endereço acima aos teus contatos. - Pretende me enviar arquivos .doc, .ppt, .cdr, ou .mp3? OK, eu aceito, mas não repasso. Entrego apenas em formatos favoráveis ao /software/ livre. Favor entrar em contato em caso de dúvida. - "People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world." --- Richard Stallman
