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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.

Check out this link for more.

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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Open Letter to Gitea (gitea-open-letter.coding.social)

submitted 2 years ago by humanetech@lemmy.ml to c/libre_culture@lemmy.ml

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In reaction to the surprise announcement of the creation of Gitea Ltd and the transfer of domains and trademark to this company, worried members of the Community have written an Open Letter to the elected Owners of the project.

The request is to return the assets and manage them by a community-led non-profit organization and furthermore improve the community organization, so that the Trust and Health of the project is restored.

The Open Letter can be signed by sending a PR to the Codeberg repository.

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

There are a couple of maintainers who signed the open letter, and also Otto Richter of Codeberg. When Gogs was forked, I believe initially the number of people involved in the fork was also very small. But I am fully behind an attempt to try to solve the issues without the need for a fork, and having a Gitea project that can be healthier than before. There is this opportunity for that, as now there's a much more inclusive open discussion on community issues and project strategy / direction.

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

Well, in the end: it became a (soft) fork. In the FAQ, an answer is that Forgejo being similar to LineageOS and Android's connection towards each other. Or how QT Company & KDE Free QT Foundaion are releated to one another.

For now, looks like Codeberg will be replacing Gitea with Forgejo codeberg/gitea from v1.18

[–] humanetech@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Yes indeed. I am involved in the project and planned launch is mid December. Anyone interested can learn more in the Matrix chatroom.