On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 23:47 -0400, Matt Lee wrote: > Ted Smith wrote: > > Unlike the original idea, this seems like a good one -- it would be a > > nice way to avoid the need for a black/white definition of what > > constitutes a "free" album or a "free" artist. > > No. We really want that black and white definition. > > NC or ND music isn't free, and we should reward artists who release free > music. That's the explicit goal of Libre.fm.
This comes back to the same question, though: what if an album is composed of some free tracks, and some non-free tracks? Does that qualify as free or non free? What if an artist began distributing non-free music, but later changed to a free model, are they always a "non-free artist"? IMHO, we have the semi-free distinction for software[1], we might as well extend it to music. Even if we don't, while a song is an atomic unit, an album isn't, and an artist even less so. Freedom scores seem to me to be useful there. We definitely want to reward artists who release free music. The question is, how does one qualify? A "freedom score" type thing seems to fit. [1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#semi-freeSoftware
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