On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Nagarjuna G <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Mohit Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear FOSSouls, > > > > > > We all know a song 'Mile Sur Mera Tumhara' (aired in 1987 on DD for > > the spirit of national integration). > > > > If this song is available under some public license, can we use a > > modified version as 'Mile Code Mera Tumhara, Toh Software bane Hamara' > > for our FOSS events and beyond? > Forget DD or anyone else, even the creative head (Suresh Mullick) and the writer (Piyush Pandey, who currently heads one of India's largest advertising agencies) are being ignored completely these days, creating a very unpleasant stink around the 'acquisition' of the creation by the filmmaker, who has created a second version that has been bitterly criticised for missing the spirit of the original and substituting it with some commercial material. I strongly suggest that anyone with deep feelings for FOSS avoid 'copying' the lyrics or tune from this tainted art, where 'IP' has been used (why does that sound so familiar) to put a fence around someone else's brilliance. We have enough talent between us to do something that stands on its own. As far as doing a song is concerned, let us copy the best part of 'Sur' - the fact that one brilliant person (Mullick) micromanaged the entire production, and refused to bow down to any 'committee' of good ideas from less talented people. > > > > What do you think about conveying the spirit of the 'Free Software > > Song' using this Hindi version? > > > > By substituting Sur with Code, the poetic metaphor of Sur is lost, > since the English code may have restricted meaning. I do not see why > we cannot sing the same song as it is, since Sur is also our > voice/speech. the spirit of let us talk together, let us sing > together or let us stream and dream together is already part of the > song. Considering that sur is also a symbolic expression, code is > already implied there. > > But, enjoy the freedom to substitute if that is what you want. do not > hesitate to use your fundamental right and wait for others, in this > case DD, to give you the right to be a human being. > > -- > GN > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in > -- Vickram http://communicall.wordpress.com
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