[linux-audio-user] AGNULA launches the "Libre Music" project

+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | ______ ______ _ _ _ | | /\ / _____) ___ \| | | | | /\ | | / \ | / ___| | | | | | | | / \ | | / /\ \| | (___) | | | | | | | / /\ \ | | | |__| | \____/| | | | |___| | |_____| |__| | | | |______|\_____/|_| |_|\______|_______)______| | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ [Sorry for cross-posting. Feel free to forward around] Florence, 22 Dec 2003 +++ AGNULA launches the "Libre Music" project The AGNULA IST-Project [0] is proud to announce its new "Libre Music" (aka the "muzik" project) project, whose goal is to create a publicly accessible database of Libre Music, i.e. music licensed under either the Creative Commons [1] licenses or the EFF [2] Open Audio License. +++ One of the objectives of the AGNULA-IST project is help spreading sensibility on the topics of Libre Software, with specific attention paid to audio/video applications and content distribution. In order to reach this goal, the AGNULA-IST project has decided to allocate a part of its resources to develop and host a publicly accessible database of Libre Music, i.e. musical works licensed under either: - the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0 license [3] - the Creative Commons Attribution 1.0 license [4] - the EFF Open Audio License 1.0.1 [5] We are not going to compete with other, similar, efforts. On the contrary, we would like to be complementary to other projects/databases who are already working or are planning to work in the same field. Our development strategy is driven by this basic willness to cooperate and not to compete. If you want to contribute to our development effort, feel free to subscribe [6] to our development portal [7] and ask either one of the `muzik' project [8] administrators (Davide Fugazza [9] and Andrea Glorioso [10]) to be added to the project - you will be able to use our CVS, bug tracking and task manager tools. If you, your company and/or your organization is interested in sharing its archives of Libre Music by publishing it on AGNULA Libre Music database once this will be complete, and/or if you want further information, feel free to send your questions, suggestions and/or criticisms to: <users(a)lists.agnula.org> [11] for general discussion, and/or to: <info(a)agnula.org> for general, info-line style questions on the AGNULA project. +++ About AGNULA: Agnula (acronym for A GNU/Linux Audio distribution, pronounced with a strong g) is the name of a project funded by the European Commission (number of contract: IST-2001-34879; key action IV.3.3, Free Software: towards the critical mass). The project aims to spread Free Software in the professional audio/video arena. -- The AGNULA Team info(a)agnula.org Our mailing lists: http://lists.agnula.org/ Our web site: http://www.agnula.org/ "There's no free expression without control on the tools you use" [0] http://www.agnula.org/ [1] http://www.creativecommons.org/ [2] http://www.eff.org/ [3] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/legalcode [4] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/legalcode [5] http://www.eff.org/IP/Open_licenses/eff_oal.php [6] http://devel.agnula.org/account/register.php [7] http://devel.agnula.org/ [8] http://devel.agnula.org/projects/muzik/ [9] davide [dot] fugazza [at] agnula [dot] org [10] andrea [dot] glorioso [at] agnula [dot] org [11] http://lists.agnula.org/mailman/listinfo/users