-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/02/2010 02:26 AM, Kevin Fishburne wrote: > On 09/01/2010 09:15 AM, Paul Giblock wrote: >> >> I don't believe it is valid to draw that conclusion. >> >> The problem is a lack of information, not us trying to hide evidence. >> >> Perhaps a solution is to make the samples available in a seperate package? >> We >> can constantly nag the user into downloading the sample pack. Distros could >> put the sample pack into nonfree repos? >> >> As far as projects.. I plan to add author and license metadata. >> > ... > I agree that documentation for each sample is the solution, placing the > burden > of proof of a sample's freeness on the author making the claim. That would > show > that all reasonable precautions were taken and provide a layer of protection. > Any samples that are unable to be documented should be replaced. That would > also > allow the samples to be included with LMMS without the need for a second > package.
I would recommend, then, that instead of trying to trace the obscure origins of the samples currently in the LMMS tree, we find new samples of known good license and use those. One example of a resource I saw for this is the OLPC Sound Samples: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sound_samples The whole collection is nearly 8GiB of uncompressed samples, and there are many different packs available, so I think there's plenty to choose from there. According to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Music/Music_content they are "free and available for downloading and use in your music and activities" - it would be worth clarifying if they mean GFDL, CC or some other license. Packaging them up in separate files will also give downloaders a chance to choose when and how they get that 300MB sample pack... :-) Hope this helps, Paul -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyR8TEACgkQu7W0U8VsXYKf6QCbBJDXLwxEoxaxB7xSvMh67Jjx fGMAn0qmE/oSBz4YDOS0dB5JPDt/j85w =O1av -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ LMMS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel
