Belligero Productions

Reading Steve's entry on "You Can't grep Dead Trees," it got me thinking about how little I use paper-based media anymore.  This point was driven home when I went to my Shakespeare & Film class, which is the only class I have this semester where we actually need to purchase a book.  My first thought was to look on Project Gutenberg and see if I could find a copy.  While I could, I figured it was better to get the edition he told us to, just to make sure everything was the same.

However, the point here is that there is more out there that conforms to the idea of Freedom than just software.  Project Gutenberg, for those who don't know, is a collection of books that have entered into the public domain.  You simply search for a book, and if somebody has entered it onto the site, you can download it in whatever form suits you best.  Personally, I usually get them in the open source Plucker format, so I can just throw it onto my Palm Pilot and read it anywhere.  There are more limitations (namely that you cannot edit or alter the original book, unless simply fixing errors), btu you can still freely distribute it to whoever you want, however you want, as long as the copyright information is kept intact.  Recently read "The Time Machine", "Frankenstein", several Sherlock Holmes stories, and have "Dracula" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"that I need to go through at some point, all for free.

Then you have any piece of art released under the Creative Commons licensing scheme: It's usually art (pictures and such) but with one of several types of licenses applied, which can be nearly identical in function to many OS licenses.  While not always identical, the basic idea of freedom of use is supported and continued, and allows licenses to be applied to a much broader range of subjects than, say, the GPL could be.

What else can you think of that follows the same principles, but doesn't involve source code or binaries, per se?