Re: [linux-audio-user] Some Random Thoughts

On Wed August 30 2006 23:33, Chris McCormick wrote:
> Speaking of which, if your music is licensed under a Creative
> Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license and
> you offer it for free download, you are still allowed to make
> a CD of that music and sell it online, right?

You can legally do whatever you want with music to which you own
the copyright. CC licenses serve to grant limited rights to
other people, where without them they'd have no rights at all.
They're not like some kind of oath you take where you swear
never to sell your stuff or release it under a different
license.

Think of it like Openoffice/Staroffice.... anyone can do whatever
the LGPL allows with Openoffice, but Sun can still sell
Staroffice without including source and they're the only ones
who can do so. See also MySQL, Qt, sendmail, and any number of
other dual-licensed products. It just hasn't been as common a
practice in music because CC licenses aren't as prevalent as
free software licenses are in software.

Rob
Received on Thu Aug 31 12:15:02 2006