[cc-community] Net Band "Packet-In" releases CC BY-SA licensed album
drew Roberts
zotz at 100jamz.com
Wed Mar 19 07:46:27 EDT 2008
On Wednesday 19 March 2008 01:26:30 Michael David Crawford wrote:
> drew Roberts wrote:
> > Packet-In, formerly LAU-CB (Linux-Audio-User Chillout Band): May be the
> > first ever attempt at duplicating Free Software in the Music realm. They
> > are making Libre Music with Libre Software and aim at providing sources.
>
> I heartily applaud what you are doing, but I'm afraid you're not the first:
>
> The band Fitehouse had published the Fitehouse General Public Music
> License, and released the individual instrument tracks of their song
> Running Scared at this page:
>
> http://www.fitehouse.com/thebomb.html
>
> That page is from 2003 or 2004 I think.
Happy not to be first. And if this brings more pioneers to light, so much the
better.
>
> However, I would argue that even individual audio tracks that go into a
> mix aren't really the source code - rather, sheet music is.
Ah, and here is the difficulty.
>
> I think the GNU GPL defines source code as "the preferred form for
> modification" of a computer program.
Well, I am not sure that the GPL definition works for other than code.
> While one can remix or sample from
> audio tracks, to make really substantial changes to a song, say to
> arrange it for a different instrument, you really have to work from the
> sheet music.
Sure, except where the sheet music does not exist perhaps.
>
> Unfortunately, it is my observation that, while many artists license
> their recordings under Creative Commons, few of them provide their
> scores. That's a shame, and something I'd like to see corrected.
From discussions I have seen on our list, I think we will be trying to provide
as much as we can with our stuff.
Also, since the stuff is BY-SA, anyone is free to supply these for the works.
Since at the moment, all I do is write some of the lyrics, my part is a bit
easier.
http://packet-in.org/repo/free_the_art/PhilH-Free-the-art.pdf
http://packet-in.org/repo/free_the_art/PhilH-Free-the-art.midi
I know that there were some chord files on our site at some point as well but
they seem to be missing or I am not looking in the right place at the moment.
>
> Keep up the good work!
From what I can tell, we all hope to and things look good at the moment.
>
> Michael David Crawford
> michael at geometricvisions.com
> http://www.geometricvisions.com/ <-- The Source Code To My Music.
all the best,
drew
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