There is a ton of explicitly “free culture” infrastructure these days, for non-software things!
Global Village Construction Set (Open Source Ecology) – opensourceecology.org
Appropriate Technology Wiki – appropedia.org
Resilient Communities blog / wiki – resilientcommunities.org / miiu.org
Gasifier Experimenters Kit – gekgasifier.com
Joseph Moxon, “Mechanick Exerciſes: or the Doctrine of Handy-Works”, from 1703, a description of various guild skills. From Google Books or thereabouts.