Re: Debian-approved creative/content license?

2007-03-28 Thread MJ Ray
Joe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. The model files, lighting, and animation information. This can be used to > regenerate the movie. > 2. The original raw frames of the rendered video. > 3. The compressed final video stream. [...] > So which one(s) should be considered source? Obviously 1,

Re: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs

2007-03-28 Thread MJ Ray
Matthew Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes that's the contract you have to sign to be part of Teosto (which you have > to do if you ever want to make a living in Finland as a musician). Please, ask Finland's *legislators* if the situation there is really that anti-competitive closed shop. I

Re: Debian-approved creative/content license?

2007-03-28 Thread Ben Finney
"Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems to me that the "preferred form of modification" seems to > depend on the desired modification. Yes. Though I keep advocating the GPL's definition of "source", I recognise the ambiguity of "preferred" in that definition. > Since this is Debian, I

Re: Debian-approved creative/content license?

2007-03-28 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:01:02 -0400 Joe Smith wrote: > > "Francesco Poli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Exactly, and in some cases an author/maintainer *may* prefer to > >modify a lossy-compressed form directly. > >In some other cases, he/she *may* prefer workin

Re: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs

2007-03-28 Thread Jason Spiro
2007/3/28, Andrew Donnellan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/28/07, Matthew Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes that's the contract you have to sign to be part of Teosto (which you > have > to do if you ever want to make a living in Finland as a musician). Ouch. As was indicated earlier this

GPL v3 Draft 3- text and comments

2007-03-28 Thread Joe Smith
The entire draft can be found at the end of the message. I belive some positive changes have been made, but some changes are for the worse. Here is my analysis of the license. This is more a general analysis, but I am trying to point out any DFSG-freeness problems I find. I have no real comme

Re: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs

2007-03-28 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Donnellan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes On 3/28/07, Matthew Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes that's the contract you have to sign to be part of Teosto (which you have to do if you ever want to make a living in Finland as a musician). Ouch. As was indi

Re: Debian-approved creative/content license?

2007-03-28 Thread Joe Smith
"Francesco Poli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exactly, and in some cases an author/maintainer *may* prefer to modify a lossy-compressed form directly. In some other cases, he/she *may* prefer working on uncompressed data and recompress afterward... Yes, I'm real

Re: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs

2007-03-28 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 3/28/07, Matthew Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes that's the contract you have to sign to be part of Teosto (which you have to do if you ever want to make a living in Finland as a musician). Ouch. As was indicated earlier this seems standard for all performance rights organisations. -

Re: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs

2007-03-28 Thread Matthew Johnson
On 3/28/07, Andrew Donnellan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/28/07, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, it actually seems rather strange to me for an organization which > > is designed to "protect" artists disallowing artists from determining > > how their own works are licensed, s

Re: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs

2007-03-28 Thread Florian Weimer
* Don Armstrong: > Well, it actually seems rather strange to me for an organization which > is designed to "protect" artists disallowing artists from determining > how their own works are licensed, This is common practice for organizations that collect royalties on behalf of composers. If you wa

Re: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs

2007-03-28 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Tue Mar 27 20:54, Jason Spiro wrote: > 2007/3/27, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >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 agr

Re: Debian-approved creative/content license?

2007-03-28 Thread Ben Finney
"Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, for creative works, the source is hard to be defined by format. It's the creativity of a work that allows it to be covered by copyright. Non-creative works -- e.g. a plain listing of the digits of a mathematical constant -- are generally

Re: Debian-approved creative/content license?

2007-03-28 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) escribe: > By ears, there's no difference between mp3 and wav It depends on the ears, certainly. It also depends on the bitrate chosen for the MP3 file and also on the audio outboard used (at 128 Kbps there's no difference with a portable player but the difference becomes o