I’m trying to add icons to the communities I moderate, and Libre Culture has been a difficult one. Libre culture is more than just open source, and more than even free (libre) software as it includes hardware too, plus non-tech stuff. It’s an ideology, one that to my knowledge doesn’t have a generally accepted symbol. I’ve been trying to find an icon that encompasses all of Libre culture, but have been unsuccessful, so I’m asking for help.

Can you recommend an icon that you think effectively represents all of Libre culture? It can either be an existing one from the internet or custom made. My main requirements are that it not be inappropriate, indecent or offensive (should go without saying), and that it be licensed under a libre license, like creative commons.

Feel free to comment your suggestions!

Update: The logo has been chosen! Feel free to give feedback here: https://lemmy.ml/post/51271

    • @[email protected]OPM
      0•3 years ago

      Libre cultue actually doesn’t have much to do with being free as in cost. It’s main concern is free as in freedom.

      I know this comment was a joke, but I wanted to clarify this for people who don’t know.

      • @[email protected]
        0•3 years ago

        To explain further: A common slogan in the free software movement was “free as in free speech, not free beer.” I think the term “libre” originated from the experiences they had trying to communicate the concept using such an overloaded word.

        • ghost_laptop
          0•3 years ago

          Yeah, kind of, it’s because Spanish differentiates between “gratis” (free as in beer) of “libre” (free as in freedom).

          • @[email protected]OPM
            0•3 years ago

            Fun fact: AFAIK most other languages have a distinction between free as in freedom and free as in beer.

  • @[email protected]
    0•3 years ago

    A more serious proposal, for some artistic person to bring to life perhaps: A common symbol for liberation is the clenched fist. If that could be made more tech-y somehow, it might be pretty representative I think.

    • @[email protected]OPM
      0•3 years ago

      I had considered a clenched fist symbol, but it felt too general for this community specifically. If someone can put a techy spin on it, that’d be awesome!

      Although, this com,unity isn’t just about technology. If a lot of people here are okay with a generic clenched fist symbol, than I’d be happy to use that too!

      • ghost_laptop
        0•3 years ago

        If this might come to reality, I think a good idea would be something like a broken fence. From what my teachers taught me libre culture is a political movement which opposes to enclosure, and enclosures began first as a way to take away the common goods of the working class, and then it started to spread across every possible commodity, the difference here is that the good being liberated are generally software.

        I’m oversimplifying things but I think y’all get the idea.

      • @[email protected]
        0•3 years ago

        Yeah I think the tech-y aspect should be understood as more of an homage to the historical origins of the movement.

        Another option could perhaps be to tweak the Creative Commons logo, which is perhaps the most well-known and recognizable symbol in the libre movement. For example, if "CC was instead made into an infinity symbol it would still be fairly recognizable but also more general.