Thoughts on free and open source music?
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/1785739
Hello Everyone! I make chiptunes on trackers which are quite famous for "keygen music" associated with software piracy. My philosophy with the music I make is that all my tracks can be downloaded for free, are copyright free, and most importantly: its source files can be accessed.
The last bit is something I dont see too much of in the music communities (correct me if I am wrong). I would definitely like to see this more popularised perhaps making something akin to "FOSS Music". Under all of my tracks I put a mediafire link to .xm file. I think this would be incredibly useful to creators as there many times where I hear a song and just love a specific instrument or sample they used and would like to use it in my own music.
Thoughts?
Fantastic. We need more content and art that is free for creative (re)use. I think this is called Free culture or Libre culture.
I think not only computer code is better when it's FLOSS, but every form of art greatly benefits from remixing, people taking something and pushing it forward. Using art as a from of debate.
And this works especially well without additional shackles like restrictive copyright or being proprietary.
For anyone wanting to put their art under a free license, take a look at CC0
I'd absolutely love putting any of the absolute abhorrent music or art I make under that license if it didn't mean a large corporation could come in and use it for their own financial gain.
Then there's CC BY-NC-SA (non-commercial use only, copyleft)and
Yeah. In my opinion the copyleft aspect is the most important one. It just forces them to share their derivate work under the same license. CC calls that 'SA' (Share-Alike). I'm perfectly okay to gift things to the community if I get the same in return. And I think that's how it's supposed to be. I don't care if somebody else can make a few bucks out out of it, as long as they allow me and everyone else the same thing with their stuff. I'm not really a fan of No-Commercial. I think this is too restrictive. Prohibits good projects just because someone is making some form of profit. And 'commercial' isn't well defined.
Just make it CC BY-SA if that's important to you. Or CC0 if you don't care or love absolute freedom.
Since this is a post about free and open-source music: non-commercial is not open-source.