On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:33:52PM +0000, David Chan wrote:
>
> > nor does any audio output replay the license.
>
> I don't think that this is neccessary, as long as the midi files are only
> distributed with the copyright notice - but see above.
>
I was joking about the license text because it seemed to force that the
copyright notice had to be sung in each audio output ;-)
> The tag line is the actual copyright notice - I believe it would be
> fraudulent to modify it in Berne Convention countries. But I Am Not A
> Lawyer.
>
If thou art a believer thou shalt be eaten. So I do not believe.
> > The GNU Free Documentation provides the concept of invariant sections,
> > which would fix this flaw.
>
> But I think there's a lot else wrong with the FDL for music, due to many
> ways which music differs from documentation - and, BTW, I think RMS would
> agree; see his comment to this list in
> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01905.html>:
>
That's not quite right. RMS was talking about the Open Content License.
That was not a GNU copyleft. The GNU FDL was created to overcome the
dangerous points in the Open Content License (being highly deprecated
today).
OTOH, the FDL is perfect for protecting a Mutopia music as a document,
i.e. the lilypond source of the piece and the readable output in every
form by making the tagline an invariant section.
> RMS> I think that we should design a license (or more than one) for free
> RMS> music. The two possibilities are copyleft and non-copyleft.
> RMS> In order to do this properly, though, we need to work with a lawyer.
>
> I always knew it would need a lawyer to
> design a good copyleft license, but I thought it would be possible for us
> to manage a BSD-style one without a lawyer. However, you appear to have
> found potential ambiguities in the first six lines. I think maybe we
> should take up RMS's offer. Does anyone else agree with this?
I strongly agree.
> [BTW Mutopia is not an official GNU project, though Lilypond is].
Then, why should I contribute to Mutopia? It shouldn't be too hard
to make it a GNU project.
Bernd Warken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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