Fwd: Re: music on FreeBSD

Bob Middaugh bob.middaugh at comcast.net
Wed Oct 5 06:30:29 PDT 2005


 Any live Grateful Dead recording would work, no copyright, no
licensing issues, etc....  There has to be at least 1 deadhead in the
FreeBSD family.

Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of 
> Gary W. Swearingen
> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 9:34 PM
> To: Escape Velocity
> Cc: Danny Pansters; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: music on FreeBSD
> 
> I've had a few more thoughts on the matter.
> 
> If "core" wants the music and the only question is licensing, 
> maybe core and you could agree on a custom license which 
> allows anyone to copy it unmodified (which must include being 
> copied as a single file from any web site) or including it 
> unmodified in a compilation or other derivative work (eg, 
> FreeBSD), but not if that work consists predominately of 
> music.  It would be easier if you could just allow all uses 
> in unmodified form (I think there's such a CCL), and better 
> if you could allow generic translations of digital format.
> 
> OTOH, I'm guessing core could find someone to donate some 
> music under a BSD-type license, without a lot of effort.  Or 
> get some non-proprietary music off an out-of-copyright record 
> or movie which is probably on the web somewhere already.
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