Hi,
I need advice for licensing a library of drum kit
audio samples. The following is a list of objectives:
1. free as in beer and speech useage and distribution
of the library for commercial and non-commercial
interests but the orginal copyright statement must
remain intact.
2. distribtuion of modified versions of the library is
strictly prohibited. Adding samples to the library or
changing the sound of any sample constitutes a
modification. I will accept contributions for
inclusion but the owner would have to share copyright.
3. derivitive products in the form of songs, sound
tracks or any other product can be freely distributed
but must include a credit to the effect of Drum
samples from "Mirror Image Drum Sample Library
copyright Ron Parker".
An example album credit could appear similar to the
following:
Album Title
Artist
Songs:
1. Free Beer written by Josephine Doe, drum samples
(MI), bass guitar John Doe, etc.
2. Free Speech written by John Doe, drum samples
(MI)... ...
Drum samples from Mirror Image Drum Sample Library
copyright Ron Parker.
I'm trying to find a specific license that exactly
covers my interests. Maybe it's a Creative Commons
license. The biggest problem is I don't have alot of
time to think about or research the licensing issues.
I'm not sure if restricting modification of the
library would prevent it from being included in Debian
distributions. Any thoughts on that? I appreciate all
help and advice.
Thank you,
Ron Parker
Mirror Image Recording Studios
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There exists a rapidly growing market of digital home audio devices. That is a
huge market and it makes sense to help Linux to grow there.
While the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum to some extent includes audio devices
it has somewhat different objectives.
I therefore would like to suggest to add "home audio" to the scope of
LinuxAudio.org.
Cheers,
Andreas
Hello all,
The Sounds Expo trade show takes place in London on the 14-16 April; that's
Thursday to Saturday, one weekend before the Linux Audio Conference in
Karlsruhe.
The organisers have agreed to the same deal we had last year, which is for us
to provide an information stand in return for getting the stand space at
cost. This is not cheap, but it's over a 75% discount on what commercial
stands have to pay. We'll probably also have to order extra electrical supply
for the stand, which is also quite expensive. Nevertheless, it's a great
opportunity to put libre audio software directly in front of the target
audience of musicians, producers and sound engineers.
Sponsorship opportunities will be available to help cover the costs of the
event. If you have any ideas for sponsorship, please let me know.
Cheers!
Daniel
Hi Ed,
> I will offer you the shell for ~65
> psqm.
Thanks! Given the nature of the arrangement, we can be flexible about the
location of the stand and the exact size, up to 12 square metres. You could
pencil us in for Stand 370 if that helps with planning, as it's near the
seminar room and the SoS stand.
Cheers!
Daniel
Hi Ed,
> How much space do you want?
Last year we had 12 sq. m which was about right. But we're very flexible of
course.
> did you have any thoughts as
> to the format of the proposed stand?
Not as yet, but I'd guess that we'll do something similar again.
> Space is charged at ~270psqm for our fully inclusive shell scheme
Last year we had an arrangement with VCM that we could have the stand at venue
cost on the basis that it would be informational, and a bonus feature of the
show, rather than commercial. We also did some joint publicity for the event.
I don't expect that any of the firms selling Linux-based products in the audio
market will sponsor the stand in order to have a sales presence - that would
be better handled on a conventional trade stand, I think.
Last year we covered the venue floorspace cost with sponsorship of around
£600, plus additional sponsorship to cover the electrical subcontractor
costs.
Cheers
Daniel
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Hi Sili,
> Please forgive me for my english.
No need - your English is fine.
> For audio stuff we should stop crusade. We should choose
> one GUI paltform.
I'm inclined to agree. I know a lot of people are choosing Fluxbox
because of the low resource overhead.
> I saw only two application that runs on any linux distro with easy
> installation without using make, configure etc and spending time to
> install additional libraries if required (Netscape and openoffice).
Perhaps they were static binaries, with all the libraries compiled in.
Although that's a good way to make sure an application will install
without dependencies, I don't think it's particularly efficient. In
my view, the best solution is a robust package management system such
as apt or urpmi. Apt is used by both DeMuDi and Planet CCRMA at home,
while Thac's RPMs for Mandrake uses urpmi.
> You should seriously
> consider what i wrote above as future standards for audio
> application listed in distros.
While there is the freedesktop.org initiative for general users, I
don't think anyone has attempted to set compatibility standards for
Linux audio workstations. At the moment, I'd expect that most of the
adaptation work is falling on the binary package maintainers.
> Its time to do right thing and not
> just talking about it.
I'm in 100% agreement with you there!
Cheers
Daniel
Hello all,
Sorry to have gone quiet for a bit, but I've been really busy with
articles and publicity work related to libre audio software!
* Trade magazine Pro Sound News Europe carried a feature on Linux
audio in the August issue, written by Simon Trask. I did an interview
for that, representing linuxaudio.org
* LinuxUser & Developer magazine has agreed to publish a monthly
'Audio Libre' feature; I wrote the first article about AGNULA/DeMuDi
and it will be out by the end of this month.
* The October issue of Sound on Sound is just out, with a two page
feature on JACK with OS X, also written by me.
I'm also working with Ron Parker to compile a promotional CD of 'made
with Linux' music. I've selected 15 tracks from over 900MB of Oggs
and MP3s collected from the internet, and Ron is doing the mastering
using Jamin at Mirror Image Studios. I hoping we'll be able to get
this CD distributed as a magazine coverdisc by the end of this year.
On the hardware manufacturers liaison side, I've been talking to AMD
on a regular basis, and we now have a technical contact there for
x86_64 porting issues. Please email me if you'd like to make contact
with them.
Cheers
Daniel James
Director
http://linuxaudio.org