Fwd: Re: music on FreeBSD

Danny Pansters danny at ricin.com
Tue Oct 4 17:56:07 PDT 2005


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Subject: Re: music on FreeBSD
Date: Tuesday 4 October 2005 23:58
From: Escape Velocity <evinquiries at gmail.com>
To: Danny Pansters <danny at ricin.com>

Thanks for the input, Dan. You understand exactly what I'm trying to do. The
question is... who do I speak with about getting some of our music included
for free distribution with the FreeBSD package? Any information would be
great!

Thanks,
Michael

On 10/4/05, Danny Pansters <danny at ricin.com> wrote:
> 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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