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 ones spending time and money to do so. (After all, that's what they're paid to do.)
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? For example, maybe we could write that the songs can be distributed by anyone as long as they are shipped with a computer game, and that the people who receive the songs automatically get an (irrevokable) license to redistribute the song under the same terms.
What needs to happen for the work to go in main is that Teosto needs to grant for whatever works that they own the copyright for the ability to distribute them under MIT/Expat (or similar) in addition to whatever license they'd use for uses of the work which are not in compliance with MIT/Expat.
I doubt Teosto will do that. Cheers, Jason P.S. I am CC'ing [EMAIL PROTECTED] now even though I didn't CC it before. -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I provide software development and training services to clients worldwide. Contact me for a FREE consultation. Satisfaction guaranteed. +1 (416) 781-5938 / Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
