>>(The 2/3-term BSD license meant to do basically the same, but it used >>more words to do the same. The old 4-term BSD license included some >>terms to make University of California benefit from advertising, if >>there was going to be any.) > >I have been generating midi, ogg, pdf, and mp3 files of some old, >out-of-copyright music. I have been releasing them and the source that >generates them under the Creative Commons license. > >Do you recommend the 3 term BSD license for this particular use instead? >Or would the 2 term one be better?
You can't do that. You added nothing of value, so you don't deserve copyright, since your conversions do not count as being substantial. Conversions of files remain under their existing rights, which means, they are free, since the copyright expired. Adding a copyright to them is a lie.
