Add Free Cultural Work indication to licenses

[fkohrt]

Description

I would really like to see that Free Cultural Work badge again, along with a corresponding statement. Seeing that my choice does not compose a "Free Cultural Work" encourages me to rethink my choices and opting to create a Free Cultural Work feels good. Used to be a great nudge!

Of course, this also includes adding the corresponding indication of a non-free license, along with a statement.

Additional context

Apparently had once been implemented via f5a2416.

Implementation

• I would be interested in implementing this feature.

[obulat]

This issue has been discussed by the team after #87, and the decision was to provide a description of what constitutes "Free Cultural Work" in the Help section (What is a Free Culture License?), but not to add the "Free Cultural Work" badge on the Chooser License card:

• Removing the "Free Cultural Works" Designation #87

[fkohrt]

This issue has been discussed by the team after #87

Sorry, I missed that!

but not to add the "Free Cultural Work" badge on the Chooser License card

Oh, I see... that's a pity :/

[fkohrt]

I have recently contributed to the discussion at said issue #87 with the following comment:

I find it very unfortunate that by now you have opted to completely remove the "Free Cultural Works" designation, not only from the sidebar but also from the help section (#441, #443, 117d4c2). I had hoped a more balanced approach would be taken when weighing simplicity against teaching about the public commons. The NC and ND restrictions do make a difference and we have come a long way to make this recognition.

I don't really see how the mere statement "this is a good/recommended/free license" considerably increases the mental load. And to me as a educator, it feels like there's some change in direction and I'm loosing my backup. Whereas previously I could point to CC and say "look, they also recommend this", CC does not differentiate them, although (1) "clear marking of qualifying CC licenses as free [was] one of the issues to be addressed for a potential migration of Wikipedia to CC Attribution-ShareAlike" (mike, 2008) and (2) the 4.0 discussions around these concerns concluded with the following:

CC will be improving messaging and information around the use and meaning of NC, including making greater distinction between the openness of the licenses with and without the NC and ND conditions.

Therefore, I would like to re-open this issue and hope that you consider adding the badge again.

[possumbilities]

Hi! @fkohrt Thank you for resurfacing this. I'm moving this to 🚧 status: blocked Blocked & therefore, not ready for work until we revise the Chooser's technical implementation, during and after we can discuss this further.

Leaving open for now.