Could you please forward this proposed license to Teosto? (was: Re: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs)
2007/3/28, Matthew Johnson <debian@matthew.ath.cx> wrote:
On Tue Mar 27 20:54, Jason Spiro wrote:
> 2007/3/27, Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> wrote:
> >On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Jason Spiro wrote:
> >> Maybe if debian-legal or I wrote the license (I have never written a
> >> license before, but maybe I could modify the MIT license) we could
> >> get Teosto to agree on more liberal terms than we would get if
> >> Teosto wrote one?
> >
> >The following is what I would use if I were to license my own
> >compositions[1] for distribution in Debian:
> >
> I'm sure you realize Teosto would consider the BSD license far too
> liberal, and forbid it. :-) Seriously, do you think my idea of writing
> a license has merit?
Such a licence would not get the songs in main, though. I imagine it
would fail DFSG 6 and possibly 3. It would get them in non-free though
which would allow the rest of the game in contrib or, if we managed to
find some free songs to go with it, in main.
Tommi has told me in a private email he doesn't want people to modify
his music, which is reasonable although it means the music won't be
DFSG-Free. I have cobbled together a possible license you could use.
The license text is pasted below. (It is based mostly on parts of the
BSD and MIT/Expat licenses and snippets from the GPL, CC-BY-ND and
Open Font licenses and some of my own words. I hereby release the
license text itself to the public domain.)
Tommi, Sami, Joonas, do you think Teosto might possibly be willing to
let you distribute the music under the terms below? If so, could you
please ask Teosto's lawyer? The music can't get into the Debian
non-free repository until we get permission to distribute it.
Tommi, the license lets people modify the music, but not rearrange it
or change the lyrics. That ensures people will be able to convert it
from one audio format into another and such, and to be able to change
the speed and/or pitch in case some Frets On Fire "Turbo Mode" mod
comes out that allows that. Are you comfortable if your music is
released under those terms? Cheers, --Jason
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