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Thoughts on free and open source music? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

The world would be a very different place without Kevin MacLeod's music

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For anyone wanting to put their art under a free license, take a look at CC0

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Then there's CC BY-NC-SA (non-commercial use only, copyleft)and

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

This is one of my favourite things about tracker music. It's obviously a lot more complicated to share the full source files for music that uses a workflow involving paid tools or that is complex to replicate. The de facto openness of the tracker format is something that is unlikely to be seen again, but rendering stems / sharing patches / encouraging sampling are all still valuable.

I'd love to see a healthy foss music scene that encorages building on one another's work and would definitely participate. Music is way more interesting when we don't have to fight economic territorialism to make it, as complicated a path as that has become.