[linux-audio-user] Announcing Gnomoradio

[iriXx]

Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo,
> Mark Knecht hat gesagt: // Mark Knecht wrote:
> 
> 
>>Speaking of Creative Commons, did any of you see the major article in, of
>>all places, The Wall Street Journal last week about Creative Commons and a
>>new CD being released under that license.
> 
> 
> There is no "that license" and this is also what I don't like about
> Creavtive Commons. There is a whole bunch of CC licenses and some of
> these I wouldn't even consider "free".

the license that Mark is referring to is the Sampling License.
> 
> For example there is a CC license that forbids commercial
> distribution. Such things would go to non-free in Debian.


thats the point of CC though - it isnt about free / non-free, its about 
choice. some people feel as strongly about public domain as others do 
about free software / free music. CC is just there to facilitate an easy 
selection of licenses which are watertight legally, so that musicians / 
artists / writers / filmmakers can get on with doing what they do best, 
and licensing it according to their views.

personally, i use the Attribution-Share-Alike license, which is pretty 
much a translation of the GPL.

but i will not be forced to judge that as being somehow 'better' than 
Tom Poe's work with the Public Domain - www.studioforrecording.org.

both are about freedom. and unfortunately, if you really want to enable 
freedom, you also have to allow freedom of choice.

the factionism that i see among some free software advocates disappoints 
me greatly as it is totally in contrast to the spirit of freedom itself. 
we cannot force people to be free - but some seem to be rather keen on 
it. i'd hate to see the evolution of Free Software Nazism - but that 
sort of thing dangerously approaches it.

free the freedom?


m~



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