-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 10:13 -0500, Clark Williams wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: >>> On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 07:37 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >>> >>>> >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)? >>> I wouldn't go that far. I would say at least, they need some sort of >>> license or copyright attribution. >>> >>> I'm slightly more concerned about whether it is legal to record the >>> sounds that a drum machine makes and freely redistribute them without >>> the manufacturers permission. >> Hmmm. >> >> I don't think there's any restriction on the use of those sounds in a >> performance, but there may be restrictions on their use in a piece of >> software. Do we know what sort of drum brains were used to generate the >> samples? Alesis, Roland, Yamaha, Ddrum? Or are they samples recorded >> from acoustic drums? > > The website claims that they came from Roland, Yamaha, Boss, and several > other units. > I see that they have a number of drumkits available. I thought I'd download the source and some drumkits, but whenever I try, sourceforge says "your download should begin shortly" and then it just stares at me (and I stare back). the "direct link" doesn't work for me either. Anyone else having issues with sourceforge? Clark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGB/RtHyuj/+TTEp0RAhjdAKC7QzygieeUAWLUkGpBqxGAlsIN5wCgpuii kvNHuOOSd2X8sFLZFtYYKvk= =M99o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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
