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On <a href="https://www.podnutz.com/lftrou074">Linux For The Rest Of Us #74 - The Legistrative Session</a>, one of our correspondents <a href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents/0155.html">Mr. Gadgets</a>, called in the following question. The segment begins at  at 01:00:30 and in it he describes a conversation about the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Freedoms_(Free_software)#definition">four freedoms</a> where someone whose opinion he respected stated "<strong>the four freedoms only cover programming. It is only the code that is covered in the four freedoms</strong>".
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For those of you who don't know <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">The Free Software Definition</a> boils down to the following rules:
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<li>Freedom 0: The freedom to run the program for any purpose.</li>
<li>Freedom 1: The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish.</li>
<li>Freedom 2: The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor.</li>
<li>Freedom 3: The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements (and modified versions in general) to the public, so that the whole community benefits.</li>
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If you read the The Free Software Definition, then yes all the references are to "software" only....<br />
...that is of course until you get to the section <em>Beyond Software</em>, in the same document,  which states: <br />
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Software manuals must be free, for the same reasons that software must be free, and because the manuals are in effect part of the software.
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The same arguments also make sense for other kinds of works of practical use - that is to say, works that embody useful knowledge, such as educational works and reference works. Wikipedia is the best-known example.
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Any kind of work can be free, and <strong>the definition of free software has been extended to a definition of free cultural works applicable to any kind of works.
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So in summary, as HPR is now released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported lisence, any shows that provide useful knowledge, such as educational works and reference works <strong>are</strong> covered by the four freedoms.
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