The Free Culture Definition

A straight port of the Debian Free Software Guidelines. OSI's "Open Source Definition" is the DFSG with the serial numbers filed off.

Free Redistribution

The license of a work may not restrict any party from selling or giving away the work as a component of an aggregate work containing works from several different sources. The license may not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.

Full Quality Structured Version

The work must include a full quality structured version, and must allow distribution in re-usable professional form as well as end-user form.

Derived Works

The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original work.

This probably doesn't work but should be considered. It seems to be like the CC-Sampling license in intention:

Integrity of The Work

The license may restrict the work from being distributed in modified form only if the license allows the distribution of "patch files" with the work for the purpose of modifying the work for consumption. The license must explicitly permit distribution of work including built from modified source code. The license may require derived works to carry a different name or version number from the original software. (This is a compromise. The Debian group encourages all authors not to restrict any files, source or binary, from being modified.)

No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups

The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.

No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the work in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for political ends.

Distribution of License

The rights attached to the work must apply to all to whom the program is redistributed without the need for execution of an additional license by those parties.

This is an adaptation of the non-Debian-specific clause and needs reworking to make sense:

License Must Not Be Specific to Any Organisation

The rights attached to the work must not depend on the work's being used or distributed by a particular organisation. If the work is extracted from its organisation and used or distributed without Debian but otherwise within the terms of the work's license, all parties to whom the work is redistributed should have the same rights as those that are granted in conjunction with the work's original organisation.

License Must Not Contaminate Other Software

The license must not place restrictions on other work that is distributed along with the licensed work. For example, the license must not insist that all other works distributed on the same medium must be free culture.

Example Licenses

'These licenses have not been evaluated, their names are placeholders:'

The "Art Libre", "CC-BY", and "CC-BY-SA" licenses are examples of licenses that we consider "free".