John Chambers wrote: > | I will go out on a limb here and say that the GPL has nothing > | whatsoever to do with copyrights that apply to music. In the US at > | least, unless you perform music that is exclusively in the public > | domain, you pretty much need to pay your dues to ASCAP/BMI or > | explain the their lawyers why you don't need to. > > There is a problem applying the GPL to music. The way it's phrased, > it really does apply mostly to software. Of course, that was what it > was designed for.
For your information, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has developed an `open' license for music. Take a look at <http://www.eff.org/IP/Open_licenses/eff_oal.html>. bert -- Bert Van Vreckem If Bill Gates had a penny for each time Windows crashed... Wait a minute! He does! To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
