Re: More Soundtrack

[Jens Granseuer <jensgr@gmx.net>]

On 08.03.2004 18:34, Dave Fancella wrote:
> On Monday 08 March 2004 05:42 pm, Jens Granseuer wrote:
> > > I found an appropriate license for it.  :)  This song is provided under
> > > the Open Source License v2, the complete text of which should be embedded
> > > in the midi file and can also be found here:
> > >
> > > http://opensource.org/licenses/osl-2.0.php
> > >
> > > I assume it's GPL compatible.  If it's not, I'll find one that is.  ;)

[...]

> Hm.  Somewhere you suggested Creative Commons for the license.  Maybe that was 
> in a personal email.  Anyway, here's my response to that.  ;)
> 
> I don't really care what license it's under, as long as it's essentially GPL 
> for music, so if you guys have a preferred license for the music, no problem 
> there.  This isn't a deal-breaker in any sense of the word.  I just want to 
> make sure that people who have the music have the same rights the GPL would 
> provide them if it was a program, that's all.  I like the OSL, and I would 
> prefer that, but the Creative Commons license isn't significantly different 
> (unless a lawyer tells me so, I'm not one), so it's not that big a deal to 
> me.  :)

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html

lists the OSL as GPL-incompatible. They don't say what problems they have
with it, unfortunately, and the CC licenses aren't mentioned at all, but at
this time I'd propose to take one of those.

Jens