[linux-audio-user] Specifying the license when posting music?

[Conrad Parker]

On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 01:23:56PM +0200, Florian Schmidt wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 12:12:39 +0100
> studio-64 <fsmith at walescomputers.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Maybe just mention if it isn't.
> > It could be assumed that music posted to this public list is creative 
> > commons.
> 
> No, the only thing that might be assumed if no further license notice is
> attached to a music posting is that the creator allows you to download
> and listen to the music. Not much else. Noone ever signed a "Everything
> i post to this list will be licensed under creative commens" agreement
> when signing up to the list.

Right. The preferred way is to put the licensing information in the file
itself.

I described this recently in a post on this list, copied here:

  http://kido.kfish.org/blog/creativecommons/ogg-tagging.html

Hopefully soon there'll be better tools to embed licensing info :-) For
now, adding the full text by hand with vorbiscomment (or with oggenc
at the time of encoding) works fine.

cheers,

Conrad.