Non-free No Budget instruments
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Non-free No Budget instruments
So I've looked at the licenses for NBO and NBB samples and quite a few are NC which means they are not free. I suggest getting rid of such samples are looking for a free replacement. I plan to explicitly mark non-free ones on the site.
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Non-commercial doesn't mean you can't freely use, modify, and redistribute the samples. It just means you can't explictly sell them, or deriviatives, as part or whole of a commercial product.
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If you can't sell them, that means you can't freely redistribute. More info: http://freedomdefined.org/Licenses/NC
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Not sure where you read that, but it's definitely not correct. The article you cited (which is an opinion piece far too lacking in legal case study to dare make such a conclusion), never makes that conclusion. The closest it gets... and this is an entirely different point... is to make the recommendation (paraphrased):FaTony wrote:If you can't sell them, that means you can't freely redistribute.
"Don't create something from NC content because then you maybe won't be able to distribute your stuff under more permissive terms".
Well yeah that's like a bsd author warning "Don't use that gpl stuff because then you can't redistribute as bsd. You have to use gpl".
You can't redistribute nc material... for profit. You and I aren't doing that with nbo. Furthermore, the license texts provide attribution, and retain original terms. There's no need to add any "warnings" to the web site. We're fine.
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Re: Non-free No Budget instruments
Let me quote:
. But Debian CDs and DVDs are sold and NC means they can't sell it with NBO. This means they will never accept NC. Or if they change DFSG, I will migrate to another distribution that is committed to freedom.
It's simple as that. For example I really want NBO to be in Debian Main so I can justThe “non-commercial use only” variants of the Creative Commons licenses are non-free
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apt-get install nbo
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Also, some instruments don't have licensing information at all. This means "all rights reserved". "All rights reserved" means "as proprietary as it gets".
Samples from freesound have this:
I've looked at freesound.org and here's what I've found in the help section:
This is actually very right. If you use NC samples, your work is also NC. Here's a funny excerpt from one of NBO licenses:
Here the author of this text shows his total lack of understanding how things actually work.
And for the last thing: http://blog.wolftune.com/2011/07/brain- ... video.html
Here the author makes an interesting observation that you can't use CC-BY-NC and CC-BY-SA samples in the same work..
Samples from freesound have this:
These are vastly different licenses. Sampling+ and BY-NC are non-free. I have no idea what listing all those licenses actually means.License details
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Sampling+: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sampling+/1.0
Creative Commons 0: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
Attribution: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Attribution Noncommercial: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0
I've looked at freesound.org and here's what I've found in the help section:
."Noncommercial" works like attribution, but you can't earn any money with the piece of work you create!
This is actually very right. If you use NC samples, your work is also NC. Here's a funny excerpt from one of NBO licenses:
.MUSIC SAMPLE LIBRARY PROJECT SAMPLES (OR: MSLP) WHERE CREATED BY ERICK KVIST WITH HELP FROM THE PERFORMING MUSICIANS
AND IT'S AN ONGOING PROJECT. IF YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE
OR HAVE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE CONTACT: INFO@MUSICSAMPLELIBRARY.COM
IMPORTANT!!!
I CHOSE THE 'CC BY-NC' LICENSE TO STOP ANYONE FROM SELLING THE SAMPLES.
BUT THE SAMPLES ARE FREE TO USE FOR ANY CREATIVE MUSICAL PURPOSES. YOU CAN SELL YOUR MUSIC MADE FROM THE SAMPLES.
BEING A NO:1 HIT SONG, MUSIC FOR TV/RADIO COMMERCIALS OR A BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE SOUNDTRACK, IT DOES NOT MATTER!
Here the author of this text shows his total lack of understanding how things actually work.
And for the last thing: http://blog.wolftune.com/2011/07/brain- ... video.html
Here the author makes an interesting observation that you can't use CC-BY-NC and CC-BY-SA samples in the same work..
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Yeah, most people have no idea how copyright really works. After looking through all this info I realized I need to change licenses of my music to make it actually legal.
EDIT: Uh oh, FlameStudios samples are GPL which means they are incompatible with CC-BY-SA... Until near past: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/cre ... -version-3
EDIT: Uh oh, FlameStudios samples are GPL which means they are incompatible with CC-BY-SA... Until near past: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/cre ... -version-3
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oh my ...falkTX wrote:you're assuming that people that make music actually care about licenses.
even famous EDM producers use cracked plugins...
fyi I do care myself about this myself, I just wanted to note that most people sadly don't.
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Alright, I have gone through all samples, checked the license of all of them and added that information to the site. As you can see, only 9 out of 54 instruments (17%) are free cultural works.