SUPPORT THE FREE ECOSYSTEM

Confidence level: **

Status: proposed

Tags: goals

Problem statement

There are various "free culture" projects, even outside software and computers, that share common characteristics. They operate on a peer-to-peer, decentralized basis instead of having a hierarchical structure. They produce things for the common good. They explicitly use free licenses for their documents and products. Gnome can become a tool for the free ecosystem, and in turn gain contributions from it.

Elaboration

Creative Commons licenses - easy to select and include.

GNU licenses - designed for software.

Preserving attributions.

Suggest free publishing sites.

Suggest free clipart/movies/books/etc.

Suggest geographically local services that can be paired with specific applications.

"Localize production; virtualize everything else."

Therefore:

FIXME

Sub-patterns

Crowdfunding.

FIXME