[cc-community] 10k great Free songs (was Re: Rcrd Lbl to offer CC and Free as in Beer Music)
Lucas Gonze
lucas.gonze at gmail.com
Tue Nov 20 14:15:02 EST 2007
On Nov 20, 2007 3:22 AM, Greg London <email at greglondon.com> wrote:
> All I've been saying is that music doesn't
> work the same way as software. That doesn't
> mean it won't work at all. But telling me
> it's working for you isn't telling anything
> at all about whether or not it's working
> the *same* or not.
Software encompasses semantics just as much as music does. Is a
search engine for finding web pages or answering questions? How is a
word processor different from a text editor? What's the difference
between a browser and the web?
Where software and music are irreconcilably different is that
expressive works are always "true" to the extent that they reflect
their creator's desires, internal state, and identity. Expressive
works can't have bugs.
This is the argument that RMS uses to explain why the GPL can't be
ported straight over to multimedia. It's a limited argument which
doesn't get to the entire range of issues and capabilities of open
media, but it is not untrue.
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