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What is libre culture?

Libre culture is all about empowering people. While the general philosophy stems greatly from the free software movement, libre culture is much broader and encompasses other aspects of culture such as music, movies, food, technology, etc.

Some beliefs include but aren't limited to:

That copyright should expire after a certain period of time.
That knowledge should be available to people, not locked away.
That no entity should have unjust control or possession of others.
That mass surveillance is about mass control, not justice.
That we can all band together to help liberate each other.

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Rules

I've looked into the ways other forums handle rules, and I've distilled their policies down into two simple ideas.

Please show common courtesy: Let's make this community one that people want to be a part of.
Please keep posts generally on topic
No NSFW content
When sharing a Libre project, please include the name of its license in the title. For example: “Project name and summary (GPL-3.0)”

Libre culture is a very very broad topic, and while it's perfectly okay for a conversation to stray, I do ask that we keep things generally on topic.

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Email requirement (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by hammsvietro@lemmy.ml to c/libre_culture@lemmy.ml

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Is leaving the email as a required field for registration against FOSS philosophy by any means? even if it won't be used for anything other than user verification/notifications if agreed by the user?

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[–] Liwott@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

What is the FOSS philosophy? Whether something is FOSS is a statement only about its source code, the data it collects is a separate issue.

[–] hammsvietro@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Aren't you talking about Open Source? the Free Software movement has many beliefs, a few of them are in this community's description

[–] Liwott@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I'm talking about free software, as defined by the fsf. A software is free if it comes with its source code and a license that gives some rights about this source code. Doesn't matter what horrible features your software has, it is free as long as one can edit them out and distribute their edited version. I am not aware of a definition of free software that includes requirements on the software's features (like collecting email addresses), maybe you can link to one?

Note that this community's description is about free culture in general, which is broader than free software. You probably meant that rather than FOSS. Sorry if it seems like I am playing with word, it's just that I first commented as a response to your question without paying attention to the community.

Now I am not sure about how much it changes my previous answer. If you run an online service, it is probably legitimate to ask for a way to contact your users, as long as you only use it for what they gave you their consent for. If the underlying software is free, people who don't want to give you that information can still run their own instance of your service. Creating a free software doesn't come with the duty of maintaining servers that run it, so you are free to impose whatever condition on the ones you run.

[–] hammsvietro@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago

Awesome, that really helps me. Thanks!