Excellent, it looks like we'll get some songs we can ship. For reference, his songs are listed here: http://www.keyboardsonfire.net/?songs under 'Sectoid'. They are all very good. In terms of packaging, we probably want to have them as a separate source package (I think), which produces a binary package which fretsonfire depends on. Something like fretsonfire-data-sectoid? We could then have fretsonfire-data-inkila in non-free for the songs from upstream. They are both arch-all packages, so don't necessarily need to be split, but it's a lot nicer for upgrades. This is also why I favour a split source package, so that upgrades don't involve uploading and pushing copies of the songs. Matt ----- Forwarded message from Carlos Viola <karuritosu@gmail.com> ----- From: Carlos Viola <debian@matthew.ath.cx> To: Matthew Johnson <debian@matthew.ath.cx> Subject: Re: Sectoid Frets on Fire tracks Ok, I´m very happy with this, as soon I lincense the songs I´ll tell you and you can put the songs freely in Debian, it´s true honour to contribute with your team. More thanks. Sectoid. 2007/5/10, Matthew Johnson <debian@matthew.ath.cx>: > >On Thu May 10 10:31, Carlos Viola wrote: >> Hello Matt, I´m sorry if I don´t fully understand you, my english >> level is not too high ;) I think you're question me for the author of >> the songs, well if it's your question I composed and played them >> personally > >That was my question, which leads onto a further question. I hope you >have heard of Debian (http://www.debian.org/). It's one of the more >popular distributions of Linux. Since Frets on Fire runs on Linux, and >is a very excellent game, we would like it included in Debian and I am >one of the people trying to do this. However, the songs that come with >the game we aren't allowed to use (for complicated copyright reasons). > >Therefore, I would like to use your songs as the songs which come with >Frets on Fire on Debian. This means anyone running Debian (or >derivatives, like Ubuntu) would see and play your songs first. The >reason I'm asking you is that because Debian's goal is to be completely >free for everyone to use, share and build upon; in order for this to >happen you would need to put your songs under a free licence. Just >putting them up on the internet doesn't actually give people permission >to copy and use them, there needs to be a statement saying that people >have permission. > >The best licence for Debian would be the MIT licence. Wikipedia >describes it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Licence, and has >translations to a number of languages if any would be easier for you to >understand. Also, if you would like this email translated into another >language then I'll see what I can do; I've written quite a lot here, so >I understand. > >Anyway, to summarise, would you be willing to licence the tracks which >you composed, played and fretted under a free licence (such as the one >I linked to) so that we can put them in Debian for all our users to play >in Frets on Fire? > >Thanks a lot, > >Matt > >-- >Matthew Johnson > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > >iD8DBQFGQuw62XtckeYvo1gRAr9jAJ4ggBcaOy+ZEo/p4LiU/NxPULz1twCg1tTa >bDF9JVaP3++bt0qU2+Sp4gg= >=9tfU >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Matthew Johnson
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