Bug#383316: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs

2007-03-28 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Tue Mar 27 20:54, Jason Spiro wrote: 2007/3/27, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Jason Spiro wrote: Maybe if debian-legal or I wrote the license (I have never written a license before, but maybe I could modify the MIT license) we could get Teosto to agree on more

Bug#383316: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs

2007-03-28 Thread Florian Weimer
* Don Armstrong: Well, it actually seems rather strange to me for an organization which is designed to protect artists disallowing artists from determining how their own works are licensed, This is common practice for organizations that collect royalties on behalf of composers. If you want

Bug#383316: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs

2007-03-28 Thread Matthew Johnson
On 3/28/07, Andrew Donnellan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/28/07, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it actually seems rather strange to me for an organization which is designed to protect artists disallowing artists from determining how their own works are licensed, so I'm trying

Bug#383316: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs

2007-03-28 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 3/28/07, Matthew Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes that's the contract you have to sign to be part of Teosto (which you have to do if you ever want to make a living in Finland as a musician). Ouch. As was indicated earlier this seems standard for all performance rights organisations. --

Bug#383316: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs

2007-03-28 Thread MJ Ray
Matthew Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes that's the contract you have to sign to be part of Teosto (which you have to do if you ever want to make a living in Finland as a musician). Please, ask Finland's *legislators* if the situation there is really that anti-competitive closed shop. I've

Bug#383316: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs

2007-03-27 Thread Don Armstrong
First off, thanks to all involved for working through this; legal stuff is annoying, but getting it right early makes it all worthwhile in the end. On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Jason Spiro wrote: We have a question about the default songs for the guitar-simulation game Frets On Fire. (We would like to

Bug#383316: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs

2007-03-27 Thread Jason Spiro
Hi all, hi Don; thanks for your input. 2007/3/27, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [parts snipped] There's really no point to drafting such a license, because it would not be acceptable for main, and more to the point, Teosto would have to vet it. Teosto's lawyers should really be the

Bug#383316: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs

2007-03-27 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Jason Spiro wrote: Maybe if debian-legal or I wrote the license (I have never written a license before, but maybe I could modify the MIT license) we could get Teosto to agree on more liberal terms than we would get if Teosto wrote one? The following is what I would use if

Bug#383316: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs

2007-03-27 Thread Jason Spiro
2007/3/27, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Jason Spiro wrote: Maybe if debian-legal or I wrote the license (I have never written a license before, but maybe I could modify the MIT license) we could get Teosto to agree on more liberal terms than we would get if Teosto

Bug#383316: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs

2007-03-27 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Jason Spiro wrote: 2007/3/27, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Jason Spiro wrote: Maybe if debian-legal or I wrote the license (I have never written a license before, but maybe I could modify the MIT license) we could get Teosto to agree on more

Bug#383316: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs

2007-03-27 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 3/28/07, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it actually seems rather strange to me for an organization which is designed to protect artists disallowing artists from determining how their own works are licensed, so I'm trying to give them the benifit of the doubt here. Do they