Dear Fred:

As promised to be back with a more definitive response on the Celebrate the Software Freedom Song Day, we have revised the licensed to CC BY SA and clearly stated in our web page http://labs.cre8tivetech.com/software-freedom-day-song/license/.

We thank you for enlightening us on such restrictions that may be brought about by marking it as NC and introducing us to the concept of creator endorsed mark.

We really do hope that with the little contribution that we shared, the SFD Celebration worldwide will be more cheerful, exciting and lively.

Btw, we re-uploaded the audio with an enhanced guitar version. You may also want to check it on this site http://labs.cre8tivetech.com/software-freedom-day-song/music-and-lyrics/

More Power to you, the SFI team and to all advocates of this noble endeavor.

Cheers,

Meric

From: Frederic Muller - SFI <fred@softwarefreedomday.org>
To: sfd-discuss@sf-day.org
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Celebrate Software Freedom Day Song

Dear Meric,

Thanks a lot for the great song! Definitely a worthy addition to our
marketing tools for team organizers.

I do have a small problem regarding the license being NC. Organizing a
SFD event means that some team will raise funds and maybe even make
money (for themselves or the organization they represent). So in that
context NC being so vague could conflict with such an event.

NC is also a lot more restrictive than GPL

Nina Paley has a good blog post related to the issue which you can read
here:
http://blog.ninapaley.com/2010/09/01/paley-vs-doctorow/

And then some more:
http://blog.ninapaley.com/2011/07/04/rantifesto/
http://blog.ninapaley.com/2010/10/20/creative-commons-branding-confusion/

With this in mind it would be really nice if you could re-license the
song under a CC-BY-SA or CC-BY

Thanks a lot for your consideration and looking forward to reading from
you soon.

Fred

On 07/19/2011 02:16 PM, meric mara wrote:
> Hi Pockey:
>
> Here's the License detail of the song
>
> Creative Commons License <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/>
> Celebrate Software Freedom Day Song by Erwin Galang,Meric Mara and Deng
> Silorio
> <http://labs.cre8tivetech.com/2011/07/celebrate-software-freedom-day-song/>
> is licensed under a Creative Commons
> Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
> <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/>.
> Based on a work at labs.cre8tivetech.com
> <http://labs.cre8tivetech.com/2011/07/celebrate-software-freedom-day-song/>.
>
> Also, do you mind changing the link to the title of the song per se
> ?"Celebrate Software Freedom Day Song" and just link it to
> http://labs.cre8tivetech.com/2011/07/celebrate-software-freedom-day-song/ =)
>
> Thank you
>
> Meric
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Pockey Lam <pockey@softwarefreedomday.org>
> *To:* meric mara <meric_m@yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss@sf-day.org>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 19, 2011 1:09 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [SFD-discuss] Celebrate Software Freedom Day Song
>
> Hi Meric,
>
> That's really cool! It's indeed a very nice song, have the spirit of
> celebrating SFD! The singing is very pro too! Thanks for sharing!
>
> I have added your link here:
> http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Resources#Songs
> so all the teams can access it!
>
> And we will definitely play it in all the SFD events in China and
> recommend it to all the other countries!
>
> By the way, what's the license? :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Pockey
>
> On 07/19/2011 12:25 PM, meric mara wrote:
>> Guys.
>>
>> We just wish to share this song/music that we did in preparation for
>> The SFD Celebration this year.
>> And yes we intend to use tune for our SFD Celebration here in the
>> Philippines (sfdph2011). If at any rate, you find it useful or
>> friendly to listen/use as well, feel free to use it for your SFD
>> Celebration.
>>
>> Here's the Lyrics of the Song.
>> Title: Celebrate Software Freedom Day
>>
>> Let’s go out and celebrate
>> It’s the Software Freedom Day
>> (Chill out/ Cheer out)Yell out and participate
>> It’s the Software Freedom Day
>>
>> Let everyone know there’s a software for(that’s) free
>> Free to use for you and me
>> Free to run and study
>> Modify, make copies
>> Save more money
>> It’s the Software Freedom Day
>>
>> Let’s go out and celebrate
>> It’s the Software Freedom Day
>> (Chill out/ Cheer out) Yell out and participate
>> It’s the Software Freedom Day
>>
>> Throughout the whole world
>> Sharing is a plenty
>> Hackers are smiling, knowledge a’flowing
>> Dance to the beat and feel the heat
>> Free and Open Software is Here to Stay.
>>
>> Software Freedom Day
>>
>> aha (2x)
>> Software Freedom Day.
>>
>> You can find the audio (mp3 and ogg version) at this link below.
>>
>> http://labs.cre8tivetech.com/2011/07/celebrate-software-freedom-day-song/
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Meric
>>
>>
>>
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