On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 22:18 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 06:28 +0200, Till Maas wrote: > > Hiyas, > > > > according to > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#head-daa717ea096fa4d9cf7b9a49b5edb36e3bda3aac > > non code packages need permission from FESCo to get included, I want to ask > > whether hydrogen drumkits are permitted for inclusion: > > > > http://www.hydrogen-music.org/?p=drumkits > > > > These are .tar.gz files, that contain .wav files, that can be used in hydrogen > > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=190040) to create > > (drum) music. > > So long as the content/music itself is Free (licensed under an > appropriate Creative Commons deed, for example) I'd think it would be > okay for inclusion, since it's not stand-alone content; but rather data > to augment an already packaged (?) application. >From what I saw by sneaking into a subset of these files, - They lack any license or copyright information. - They are sound files (sound samples), being usable stand-alone with a little processing (They are plain tar.gz's of *.wav's and *.flac's) being obscured by using a nonstandard file suffix). - Question, I don't know the answer to: Do these sound samples qualify as "artwork" (and therefore have to be considered to be covered by "artistic" copyright laws)? Ralf -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
