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As I'm a FOSS zealot myself, I really would love if there was a sort of "meta license filter" that includes all licenses compatible with the Definition of Free Cultural Works. This is very important for anyone who is developing free software since you can only use free/libre media in it. A NonCommercial license is an absolute no-go for FOSS.

In case you don't know, a Free Cultural Work basically like Free Software, but for media/art.

https://freedomdefined.org/Definition

Long story short, these licenses on Freesound are Free Cultural Works licenses:

- CC0
- CC BY

The NonCommercial and Sampling+ licenses are NOT Free Cultural Works licenses.

So, I suggest add a "special" license filter in the search that hides all non-free works (currently: NonCommercial and Sampling+) with a single click.
Oh, and should Freesound ever permit more libre license in future (like CC BY-SA), this will need updating, of course.

Currently, I can't really do that, apparently. When I filter by CC0, all CC BY works get invisible, and vice-versa. That's kinda inconvenient. I have always do two individual searches to find all libre works.

Or is there a secret feature that allows me to do that already?

Hey

Great feedback

Sound like a reasonable suggestion. And not difficult to implement either. Instead of creating new terminology for users and having to update the help page, It would be far less confusing to just allow the selection of multiple license types in the filters.

I'm going to add a ticket to the github for this simply because I thought we were able to do this, but evidently not, so I think it should be a thing.

I can't tell you when the development team might get round to doing it though, could be a long wait. There's a great deal on the table at the moment development wise, but at least it will be on the list.

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion yxcvasdf and thanks for the answer Headphaze. In fact it is not straightforward to implement but we should definitely do it at some point. Maybe we can include that in the new interface release.

Aha! Excuse my non-coder ignorance

A feature like this would be extremely useful for me as well, as I'm using Freesound for pretty much all the sound effects in my animated movies.

To be clear: I actually don't care that much about how exactly this will look it the end. If it's a single link, if "Free Cultural Licenses" are mentioned or not, or if it's a multi-selection or whatever. As long there is an easy and fast way to hide all non-free content, that would be great.
But I would like it a lot if this would really just a single click in the end. If it's still confusing or complicated to use, that wouldn't be a real improvement.

Anyway, thanks for adding this to the TODO list.