(SOLVED) Music files...

Might be possible for the original authors to release the music under CopyLeft's Share-alike license?

This is a possibility (I think I recall it being discussed before). We have multiple artists behind our music tracks (tones has done at least one, and I believe that rlk did most if not all of the others). Rather than a lack of interest, themacmeister's response highlights that those people will need to speak for themselves and it may take a little while for them to respond.

If worst comes to worst, you could include a copy of the source (or a readme with instructions on how to download it?) on the CD in a data partition to meet the requirements of the GPL, I believe.

I'm definitely not a GPL expert, and don't have any kind of legal background, but as I interpret it, the idea is that the source (or instructions on how to obtain it) should be distributed with derivatives and that they should never be separated, so that at any point, anybody who has a copy of the work can find the source and make modifications if they want/need to.

The GPL is really designed to cover source code for programs rather than audio assets like this. I'd consider the music to be equivalent to compiled stuff, as it has "sources" (which we currently don't make available so far as I'm aware). Let me have a poke around and see what I can come up with, and maybe get the artists involved to weigh in.

Edit: I want to highlight that whilst I don't want to speak for everybody, I'm pretty confident that our development community would be more than happy for this kind of sharing to happen (we're all super nice, upbeat people). Given the context of your request and that you've taken the time to read through the licencing terms, I feel that there's some value in exploring how we can do this "properly" - I hope it doesn't feel like we don't care (it's more that we're slow ^_^ ), and I, for one, am very appreciative that you asked

I'm fine with Share-alike also.
Thanks for visiting the forum and for asking in the first place @aardvark.
Enjoy!

Hi all...

Thank you so much for your time and help!

About asking for permission, you're all more than welcome! In Luke 6:31 (NIV,) our Lord Jesus talks about this, "Do to others as you would have them do to you." I know I wouldn't feel very good having someone stealing and/or doing whatever to my work and not caring about my thoughts or feelings about it. :-)

In addition, I appreciate being able to play what I consider one of the higher quality open-source games out there for free.

So just to make sure I'm understanding correctly, I have permission to use all of the music, including track 6, in a standalone CD without the source code. I can include the source if you prefer, just that I would need someone to show me how you burn both the source code and the music files together in Brasero.

Thanks again!

Go for Gherkin!

Never was big on hat stuff anyway.

...what a coincidence - only yesterday when combing through my pretty huge CD collection I came across Zappas "Man from Utopia" (also feat. Steve Vai as the one doing "impossible guitar parts"), while most of that Droodles stuff doesn't really get me I think that this one with that title (!) is just pure genius, thanks for posting and putting a ^_^ on my face

I get at least one Zappa tune in my head pretty much every day because his corpus casts such a wide net over all of language. Today it was "Magdalena" after I spread mayonnaise on something. Yesterday I was mentally grooving on "Peaches en Regalia" because "regalia" was a Jeopardy question. I've never even listened to Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch, though of course I know "Valley Girl". Thank heavens for Spotify...

That's great to hear

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