Libre Knowledge Communities

Libre Communities are communities which work with libre knowledge and other libre resources and share values similar to those of WikiEducator and those described in (for example) the Libre Communities Manifesto. Libre communities release their efforts under licences compatible with the Libre Cultural Works definition

(e.g. help by checking that the following have not changed their licensing policies, add more initiatives to the lists, and help structure the lists below into sensible sections)

Examples of libre communities
Working with libre knowledge and enabling people to exercise their freedom to learn and participate.

Pro-freedom
Pro-freedom licences are copyleft, requiring that the freedoms be preserved in derived works (e.g. CC BY-SA).


 * Anatomography (CC BY-SA)
 * Appropedia] (CC BY-SA)
 * Association for Progressive Communications (CC BY-SA)
 * autonomo.us (CC BY-SA)
 * Citizendium (CC BY-SA)


 * Encylcopedia of Earth (CC-BY-SA)


 * Free Culture Forum (CC BY-SA)
 * FLOSS Manuals (originally they used GNU General Public License, but now ... some PDF downloads say "License: none" ... possibly mixed ?? but I expect all libre ??)
 * Free Culture Foundation (CC BY-SA, etc.)
 * The Free Knowledge Institute (FKI) (CC BY-SA)


 * Libre.fm (only promote artists whose work is released under a libre licence)
 * Libre.org
 * Libre Graphics World (CC BY-SA)
 * Libre Knowledge - Sharing class notes and commentary at BYU (public domain - see the About page)
 * Libre Music Production (LMP) (CC BY-SA)
 * LibrePlanet (GNU FDL)
 * P2P Foundation (CC BY-SA)
 * Stack Overflow (CC BY-SA)
 * Wikia (CC BY-SA, since June 2009)
 * Wikipedia (CC BY-SA, since June 2009)
 * Wikitravel (CC BY-SA)
 * Wikiversity (CC BY-SA)
 * Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA)


 * Please add ...

Pro-choice
Pro-choice licences are libre licences which permit users to create (or mix them into) non-libre derivatives (e.g. CC BY).


 * Connexions (CC BY)
 * Copernicus Publications (CC BY)
 * European Geosciences Union (CC BY)
 * Identi.ca (CC BY)
 * Open Game Art (CC BY and -SA 3.0 without NC, CC0)
 * PLOS / PLOS One etc. (CC BY)
 * The Saylor Foundation (CC BY)
 * WikiEducator (default CC BY-SA, also CC-BY and CC0)
 * Wikinews (CC BY)

Mixed
The site shares knowledge and cultural works under various licences, some libre, some non-libre.


 * ourproject.org - Free Software and Free Knowledge for a Free Society (Projects are released under their respective licenses; Except where otherwise noted, the rest is CC BY-SA).

...

Libre by name but sharing non-libre knowledge

 * libre-software.net - although the knowledge concerns libre software, the knowledge shared is non-libre (CC BY-NC-SA).

Lists
The following lists mostly include libre resources (not checked in detail):
 * The libre and open software communities around software with libre licences (regarding software as a form of knowledge)
 * List of free and open-source software packages

Etc.

 * Hipatia - "promote freedom of (and free sharing of) knowledge, as is the right of all human beings to access, use, create, modify and distribute knowledge freely and openly; ..."
 * Free software community