[linux-audio-user] The Open Music Resource Library - Licensing - Linux-audio-user

3 Jan 2003

Hello, all! I hope everyone had a good holiday season. As for me, I was 
busy moving into a new house (I'm a first-time homeowner, which is 
scary), so I've not had a chance to do any more work on the library. 
That will change now, however, as I now have my cable modem back, and a 
new broadband router to boot. :) I can now set up my older AMD 750 as a 
development server... Eventually.

So now, it's down to brass tacks.

I figured before I start to work in earnest on the technical aspects of 
the OMRL, that a good subject to tackle would be the required licensing 
of the content uploaded to the site. In reviewing this subject over 
previous emails, here are the conclusions I came to:

1) Users should be free to download, use, and redistribute for no cost 
any and all loops, samples/sample sets, and patches.

2) Users should be free to use any loops, samples, and patches in their 
final musical works, regardless of whether that final work is free or 
for-profit.

3) Users will *not* be free to download any loops, samples, and patches 
(raw materials) to package up and sell on a for-profit basis.

Basically, you can use anything from the OMRL in your final product and 
sell it (or give it away), but you cannot sell any of the content of 
the OMRL itself, for example, selling a loop library CD containing 
loops from the library.

Does this make sense to everyone? Would this be an acceptable solution 
to the problem?

Thank you for all of your help and support.

Regards,
Darren Landrum