Good to see you weigh in on this, Lyno.
When I think about how to approach licensing within an open-source
culture-making community I am shaping, I oscillate between...
1) the urge to build in a protocol of attribution, so as to take
advantage of the motivational appeal of being recognized
as contributors (more people might work harder), and
2) the desire to free participants (including myself) from the tedium
and the companion text files that strict attribution would require.
I might grab a reggae bass line from a MIDI file, plop it into my already
developed song, and re-work it until it really has little resemblance to
the original. I'm grateful to the person whose bass line got me going, and
to whomever he/she was influenced by, and to the mysterious alchemy of the
Jamaican experience that gave birth to such grooves, but I'd prefer an
environment where my payment to that person/culture is respect and the gift
of my new MIDI file back to our common resource pool (your "closed domain").
Would it be sacrilegious to strip out the attribution sections of the GNU
GPL and give the resulting license a new name and location?
Kevin
