Projects

Criteria for projects

A project can be considered to be under the FreeCulture.org umbrella if it meets the following criteria:

• The project must fit within the objectives of the free culture movement, i.e., it must support the creation or discovery of freely licensed cultural works, or the liberation of existing proprietary content.

• All project code is under an OSI-approved open source license or an FSF-approved free software license. This must be noted using standard methods (a note in the site footer, a LICENSE file in a GitHub repo, etc.).

• All project content is under a license consistent with the Definition of Free Cultural Works

• It is possible for new contributors to join development (if applicable) and content creation (if applicable)

• The project has a clear policy to not tolerate abuse, harassment, trolling, or other abusive behavior (an example is the Contributor Covenant)

• The project maintainers agree to provide updates on significant milestones for the FreeCulture.org newsletter. These updates are collaboratively edited prior to publication.

Projects may utilize the following freeculture.org shared resources, as appropriate:

• mailing lists
• this wiki

If maintainers have need for more resources not currently provided, see the shared resources page for information on how to get access to the server and become a maintainer for new services (which need to have potential use beyond the project they're set up for).

Projects may be archived from this page if they're deemed inactive (e.g., no updates submitted to newsletter within a year).

Affiliated projects

The following projects affiliate with freeculture.org (in alphabetical order):

Project name	Description	License	Additional terms
CommonSearch	A nonprofit search engine for the web	Code under Apache License, libraries under various open source licenses Various data sources	Contributor Covenant Privacy
Free Your Stuff	A content liberation tool for supported websites	Code under CC-0, libraries under various open source licenses Default license for content is CC-0; CC-BY and CC-BY-SA supported	Contributor Covenant
lib.reviews	A community for free and open reviews of absolutely anything	Code under CC-0, libraries under various open source licenses License for content is CC-BY-SA (for reviews) and CC-0 (for metadata)	Contributor Covenant Terms of use for the site/community
Snowdrift.coop	Community funding for public goods	Source code under AGPL and writings under CC-BY-SA (libraries under various open source licenses) Limited to funding free/libre/open projects	Code of Conduct Trademark policy Privacy policy
Free Music Wiki	♪ The Wiki Songbook for Free Music ♪	various licenses (must be FCW compliant!)	For account creation, you will need the anti spam password: 1Nagv2Fcnz3

See also

• History