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Re: Solfege Resources -- 404 bach chorales in Lilypond format with Movab
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Phil Hézaine |
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Re: Solfege Resources -- 404 bach chorales in Lilypond format with Movable Do solfege. |
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Sun, 02 Jan 2011 11:46:35 +0100 |
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Le 01/01/2011 22:45, Michael Ellis a écrit :
> Hi Phil,
> Thanks for the input. I've sent email to Margaret (whom I don't know
> personally) asking her thoughts about the licensing. I've not yet heard
> back from her.
>
> I confess I went with a strong non-commercial clause largely in deference to
> her work and the claims on her website. It's a lot easier to loosen a
> license later than to tighten it after the work is "in the wild". I have
> to say that the whole copyright issue here is quite confusing. As you point
> out, the author of the works is long dead and published editions exist that
> were never under copyright or have lapsed into the public domain.
>
> I'm certainly not trying to assert any copyright to Bach's work or
> Margaret's for that matter. I do claim some right to the LilyPond files
> themselves, or perhaps better to say, the organization of the files to
> produce the solfege, etc, but I'm not sure how to properly express that or,
> to be truthful, whether it's even worth the bother. I suspect you may have
> more experience than I in these areas.
>
Hi Michael,
Personnally, because your work is based on scripts, i'll put a GPL'ed
license. But I haven't to give you a piece of advice. Even I don't know
if you can mix the CC-NC-SA with GPL both in a work
> I really want to find out how Margaret feels about this before changing the
> license. My primary intent here is to provide a useful resource for
> students of music and I don't want to get into a copyright dispute with
> anyone. As the Chinese proverb says "In death avoid hell, in life avoid the
> law courts!"
>
We have exactly the same intent. I'll say: for students of music,
artists or musicologists
> I have not encountered the Free Art license before. From a quick glance at
> the wikipedia description, it sounds almost identical to the Creative
> Commons license with only the Attribution and ShareAlike clauses but without
> the Non-commercial clause. Is that correct?
>
Yes. And there is a recommandation from the FSF to use this license for
artistic purposes. Just a recommandation. Not more.
> Finally, however the copyright on my work sorts itself out, I'll be happy to
> include your work on my site under whatever copyright terms you like.
> Still, since we're working on the same chorales it would be great if we can
> find a way to combine our efforts to produce the best possible editions.
>
I agree. Bach and a free license are just my condition for this kind of
work.
> Cheers,
> Mike
Cheers.
Phil.
- Solfege Resources -- 404 bach chorales in Lilypond format with Movable Do solfege., Phil Hézaine, 2011/01/01
- Re: Solfege Resources -- 404 bach chorales in Lilypond format with Movable Do solfege., Michael Ellis, 2011/01/01
- Re: Solfege Resources -- 404 bach chorales in Lilypond format with Movable Do solfege.,
Phil Hézaine <=
- Re: Solfege Resources -- 404 bach chorales in Lilypond format with Movable Do solfege., Graham Percival, 2011/01/01
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- Re: Solfege Resources -- 404 bach chorales in Lilypond format with Movable Do solfege., Phil Hézaine, 2011/01/02
- Re: Solfege Resources -- 404 bach chorales in Lilypond format with Movable Do solfege., Michael Ellis, 2011/01/02
- Re: Solfege Resources -- 404 bach chorales in Lilypond format with Movable Do solfege., Phil Hézaine, 2011/01/02
- Re: Solfege Resources -- 404 bach chorales in Lilypond format with Movable Do solfege., Graham Percival, 2011/01/02
- Re: Solfege Resources -- 404 bach chorales in Lilypond format with Movable Do solfege., Michael Ellis, 2011/01/02
- Re: Solfege Resources -- 404 bach chorales in Lilypond format with Movable Do solfege., Graham Percival, 2011/01/02
- Re: Solfege Resources -- 404 bach chorales in Lilypond format with Movable Do solfege., Henning Hraban Ramm, 2011/01/03
- Re: Solfege Resources -- 404 bach chorales in Lilypond format with Movable Do solfege., Michael Ellis, 2011/01/02