music on FreeBSD

Danny Pansters danny at ricin.com
Tue Oct 4 15:58:26 PDT 2005


On Tuesday 4 October 2005 15:13, Subhro wrote:
> Escape Velocity sat at his 'puter and typed on 10/4/2005 19:47:
> > Yes, I understand it would be free and I am willing to abide by the
> > BSD License - this song would be released under the Creative Commons
> > license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/). Let me
> > know what I should do next.
>
> ]That's great. However I feel there is a small glitch. As per
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/, the work can not be
> used for Commercial Purposses. However as per the BSD license you CAN
> use BSD License protected softwares for commercial purposes but you wont
> be allowed to call it a BSD Protected software any more.
>
> Thanks
> S.

evinquiries at gmail.com: do CC the list please

Do you think everything distributed with FreeBSD is BSDL, Subhro? It's not. 
CCL is fine for contributed docs and artwork. Everyone seems to do it. 
There's no license issue.

But the question is, do the people who decide what goes in the distribution 
(on the CDs so to speak) want such a thing. I'm not one of them, but I think 
it's not a bad idea to have some media for testing and promotional purposes. 

I'm not sure who he should ask if they want that; releng@ ?

On installation CDs space is always tight though, and you probably don't want 
something like this to go stale for months on end. Before you'd know it there 
may be so many people offering media that after CD space, bandwidth may 
become an issue. A contrib-media port or something alike with RESTRICTED set 
is something that could be made by anyone at anytime of course.

Dan 


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