Is there any chance that somebody will state the licenses of the sound files included in LMMS?
Johannes Kroll-2 wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 02:15:29 -0700 (PDT) > musikBear <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> In my opignion the real danger is in the actual package. Some idiot >> lawyer >> (very posible a german 'marnung-artist' .. :/ -could focus on the actual >> LMMS package, and with that in hand place a class-act lawsuit on >> everything >> ever produced with LMMS. Simply using the lawyer-based-logic "produced >> with >> somthing that has illeagal content -ergo illeagal! >> Some lawyers has made a carreer in being guilded ass*****.. > > You mean "Abmahn-Anwalt" maybe ;-) > > I think you're right. According to GEMA, there is no such thing as > "fair use" in the sense that you can use samples up to a certain > length freely. This may vary from country to country, but > basically, every piece of data you distribute must have some form of > license, CC or whatever, and permission from the people who made it, > of course. Else, technically you just can't distribute it, and nobody > can create anything based on it. (IANAL, but that's just the way it is.) > > Check out this cool art performance btw, it was somewhat related. (text > in german, video has english subtitles) > http://www.kreidler-net.de/productplacements.html > > I guess presets are less of a problem than samples. Just in case, you > could re-create all of them and put them all under CC for the next > release. > > It's probably best and easiest for artists if all the data is licensed > with one permissive CC license, maybe just "by", but maybe even put > everything into Public Domain so that people don't have to include > attribution texts with all their MP3s. :-) In any case, the license of > all the data must be made clear. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: > > Show off your parallel programming skills. > Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd > _______________________________________________ > LMMS-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/License-for-LMMS-samples-and-plugins-tp29544570p34125136.html Sent from the lmms-devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ LMMS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel
