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Yeah. It's a derivative of a cc badge, which is why it's CC-BY-SA. It was still silly to modify a badge instead of making a new one, given the ironic licensing. If you make one from scratch, maybe you could upload it to wikimedia commons?

edit: okay, here's a CC0 badge, available under CC0.

Creative Commons has downloads including public domain badges, but I can't seem to find an exception to the overall CC-BY licensing, so I think they've overlooked this issue as well :/

I've looked into it a while ago, and unfortunately found no solutions that would match dropbox's drop-in easiness while still being FOSS and permitting you to roll your own solution.

Having said that, two solutions that may interest you:

• Sparkleshare. Git-based, mutli-platform. When I last looked into it, Windows and mobile support was iffy, but it may be better now.
• Unison. Rsync-like, command line. Unlike rsync, it focuses on two-way sync, keeping copies of the same file the same on all locations.

I'm one of the developers, after receiving multiple requrests, we've added a BeagleBone Black version as a stretch goal for those who have strong convictions about free/libre software.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1455616350/yacypi-turnkey-raspberry-pi-based-internet-search/posts/733449

That trisquel forum discussion starts at http://trisquel.info/en/forum/librem-15-freelibre-and-open-source-laptop-respects-your-essential-freedoms#comment-59735

I'm glad to see people attempting to meet demand for ethical technology. I expect most such attempts will fail, but hopefully some learning happens, eg fairphone realizing software freedom was more important than they thought at the start.

That's not free. Here's the URL to search for only free culutre tracks (it'll take a while for the results to load after the search bar): https://www.jamendo.com/en/search?qs=fq=license_cc:%28-nd%20AND%20-nc%29&q=*:*

I'm going to assume you mean 4.0, not sure what the differences are with lower levels. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode

I am an attorney, but I am not your attorney. If you want to be sure, hire your own lawyer who is going to spend more than a few minutes on this and who is bound to you by the rules surrounding the attorney-client relationship.

The "infection" covers all "adapted material." (3.b.)

Adapted Material is defined in 1. a. as:

> Adapted Material means material subject to Copyright and Similar Rights that is derived from or based upon the Licensed Material and in which the Licensed Material is translated, altered, arranged, transformed, or otherwise modified in a manner requiring permission under the Copyright and Similar Rights held by the Licensor. For purposes of this Public License, where the Licensed Material is a musical work, performance, or sound recording, Adapted Material is always produced where the Licensed Material is synched in timed relation with a moving image.

I'm not entirely clear on how your "grammar" uses images (are you talking about the documentation for the grammar?), but one might argue that your documentation contains an "arrangement" of the images. However, only that arrangement, and the images themselves, would have to be licensed under CC-BY-SA. Your document, as a whole, might be licensed under CC-BY, except for those modifications. Then again, maybe I don't understand what your grammar actually is, or maybe somebody else interprets the CC-BY-SA differently. So it's hard to say.

There seem to be some reasons NOT to choose time4popcorn. There is a collection of alternatives (most are free) at https://www.reddit.com/r/PopCornTime/comments/232xmf/a_list_of_popcorn_time_clones_and_android/

Edit: httpS

It would be amazing if you could help any foss game. There is no shortage of software developers, but there is a huge and constant shortage of artists. Choose any game you like, and if you can contribute with 2D/3D art and models, or illustrations, you will be crowned king. For example Battle for Wesnoth, SuperTuxKart, 0AD, Unknown Horizons, Flight Gear, Limit Load, you name it! Also, many FPS games have free source but non-free assets (art). Here you can find a longer list of games

SailfishOS is reasonably open source (imo). There is a GUI layer and some other things that are closed source, but they release most code open source, and the system is built on top of the open source Mer/MeeGo platform, so it is essentially Linux+Wayland+Qt with a bit of other stuff on top. It comes with the open source Android runtime, so in addition to native (Qt) apps almost all Android apps run (except if they require Google Play, but if you mess around and install that obviously you will then have a lot of closed source untrusted things running on your phone).

I really like it. Have used a Jolla as my primary/only phone for almost a year and backed the Jolla Tablet kickstarter recently. Not 100 % open source, but at least very open. I love how the SDK connects to the phone using ssh (over wlan or usb). File-transfer can also be done using just scp. No weird closed protocols or tools to install. The phone comes with a decent shell and all the command-line stuff you expect pre-installed (including ssh, sshd, git, python) and a lot of things are available from the default repo, so I have for instance emacs (running the same config files as my desktop emacs) and screen and a full C and C++ toolchain on the phone. It feels a lot more like a real little computer than a closed smartphone. Not what you asked for, but I think a lot of people asking for a more free smartphone will also be happy about having access to such tools (useful or not).

They should also add a alternative login besides Facebook. I'm a developer who recently started working with the Facebook, and it's pretty amazing to see the information that you can access with the Facebook API.

On top of that, I think it's bad for the internet to require credentials from another service. I don't want to have to depend on my google account, facebook account, or any other service to access the internet.

I haven't looked into it, but openID seems like it might be a secure and convenient alternative.

It's published on archive.org as well, good for people who are at work, in school or have a stupid ISP/gov't, or simply haven't got an ad-blocker installed...

Enjoy :)

I think the Liberated Pixel Cup is exactly the right kind of thing to do to bring Free Culture and Free Software together. In the context of DRM'd ebooks perhaps there should be an effort to replace some of the most annoyingly DRM'd textbooks with Wikibooks contributions. Thanks for prompting me to think that one up.

Can we make this a standard with WebRTC?

Edit: Only linked to twitter because WebRTC isn't on a StatusNet instance-- I also didn't realize they had a discussion list:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/discuss-webrtc/GQ1FoG48CHc

I’m currently working on something like that at Libre Projects with a focus on web applications.

At the moment it’s only linked icons but I plan on expanding it with descriptions, opportunities for coders, translators, donations, etc.

Sparkleshare is great. I move a lot so I don't have my own solution now, but I used to roll with it a while. There was work on an Android app - not sure if it's still running. They have a Windows client, but it doesn't work on XP, onlly 7 and Vista.

EDIT: Here's the Android app.

I have used fbreader as my primary ebook reader (in Android, MeeGo and now SailfishOS, various phones and tablets) for a few years. It works great. There are also versions for desktop OSes, but I tend to read in Calibre instead there (also free software). Fbreader is GPL and supports "ePub, fb2, mobi, rtf, html, plain text, and a lot of other formats".

https://www.gutenberg.org/ is great for free classic books in electronic format.

Out-of-copyright classic texts are often available in cheap print versions from remainder bookshops or dollar stores.

No, Performous is still alive and well. It received its 1.0 update 6 months ago, and the site is still up.

If you are looking for lyric files, go to this site. You may have to register before you can browse songs, but there are thousands of user-made lyric files available.

moodle is a pretty good platform for putting learning resources onto. exe produces SCORM units which can be added to and used by moodle. http://openclipart.org provides lots of images in different formats that can be used.

I have used both to provide "free" education materials in the past.

You have to keep in mind a very important reality--a large part of the Free Culture movement is spill-over from the Free Software one :) we're all very concerned with Non-Free Software, because it smacks us in the face every day (I am unfortunate enough to subscribe to /r/programming, they rather like non-free software), but we don't so much see the problems with Non-Free Culture every day.

I don't mean to suggest that we don't like the idea, nor that we won't help. But when the folks from the FSF step up to make a website promoting an anti-DRM campaign, their first thoughts for examples are software!

Of course, the focus this year is eBooks, so I don't see the relevance of this point, mostly. Maybe you mean to suggest that the FSF should host free media or run a free radio? Maybe there needs to be more focus on music and film still? What would you suggest here to bring non-software back into focus?

I've been using peerflix, which is a node package which streams torrents. I just searched through the pirate bay to get the magnet, works well for TV shows and Movies, but I don't think it will work with albums, since IIRC it downloads the biggest file.

https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix

You should have a look at the new book from Creative Commons. It's about both getting the word out about CC licensed work, and earning money from it. http://madewith.cc/

Also: You need to take every opportunity to get more eyes/ears on it, like linking to it here ;) I'd love to check it out.

PS: Are you on Jamendo?

If you have any constructive feedback or ideas to improve the website, feel free to use the contact form https://www.jamendo.com/contact. But you need also to be aware of the fact that jamendo does not have a huge team of developers, so changes might not happen the day after something got suggested ;) I'm sure every feedback gets considered but as any user prefers something different, in the end the result might not please everyone.

Owncloud has collaborative editing for ODF. I don't think they have spreadsheets or presentations yet though. It is easy to install, but upgrades sometimes will give you trouble if you're not paying attention.

dunno if you saw this, http://opengameart.org/forumtopic/optional-but-appreciated-post-your-binaries-here it's a helpful thread of binaries and links to the online instances of the HTML5 games, they're not all there but a lot are.

It would be great if the organizes put together a combined package with them in like a showcase or something, certainly it shouldn't be too hard with the html5 ones to get them all running somewhere.

i think my ideal outcome would be to see a package in the ubuntu repository called 'Liberated Pixel Cup' which contains a simple menu with all the games included and possibly a section which tracks news of the next LPC and reminds me when to donate, make art, code, etc...