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Richard Stallman announced the GNU project (GNU’s Not Unix) to create a free operating system in 1983, making the free software movement at least 25 years old.[1] In a number of ways, free culture is harder to pin down than free software. No single event marks the obvious beginning of the free culture movement.
Via Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.
[... Candidates might include the launches of the first Open Content licenses (1998[2]), Wikipedia (2001), and Creative Commons (2002). One reason may be that there is no free culture equivalent of a free operating system—an objective that is clearly necessary, and for at least some people, sufficient to fully achieve software freedom. ...]
[... Richard Stallman announced the GNU project (GNU’s Not Unix) to create a free operating system in 1983, making the free software movement at least 25 years old.[1] In a number of ways, free culture is harder to pin down than free software. No single event marks the obvious beginning of the free culture movement. Candidates might include the launches of the first Open Content licenses (1998[2]), Wikipedia (2001), and Creative Commons (2002). ...]