Thank you for appreciating. And we hope the other teams will like it too. Regarding the license, it will definitely be on creative commons but ill check out with my team mates which of the variants it will fall under. BTW, is the team registration already open? We checked the site http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/en/participate/register-your-team and it seems not open yet? Best regards, Deng ________________________________ 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

_______________________________________________ SFD-discuss mailing list SFD-discuss@sf-day.org http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss

Hi Pockey: Here's the License detail of the song Celebrate Software Freedom Day Song by Erwin Galang,Meric Mara and Deng Silorio is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at labs.cre8tivetech.com. 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

_______________________________________________ SFD-discuss mailing list SFD-discuss@sf-day.org http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss

Pockey: Thank you very much! We already placed the license detail on the blog site. 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 2:21 PM Subject: Re: [SFD-discuss] Celebrate Software Freedom Day Song On 07/19/2011 02:16 PM, meric mara wrote: Hi Pockey:

Here's the License detail of the song

Celebrate Software Freedom Day Song by Erwin Galang,Meric Mara and Deng Silorio is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at labs.cre8tivetech.com.

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/ =)

Sure, done! Would you please put the license detail inside your blog post as well? thanks! Pockey

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

SFD-discuss mailing list SFD-discuss@sf-day.org http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss

Dear Fred: We are delighted and glad to hear that you like the song and appreciate the work/effort. Thank you too for sharing with us an important/ relevant article to clarify copyright and non-commercial issues.  Upon reading along and pondering we realize how NC could be restrictive and may also be not towards culture and community building. Let us however be regarded a little time to consider our options more concretely and we promise to revert to you guys on a detailed and more positive note. Thank you very much and more power to all, 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

_______________________________________________ SFD-discuss mailing list SFD-discuss@sf-day.org  <mailto:SFD-discuss@sf-day.org> http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss

_______________________________________________ SFD-discuss mailing list SFD-discuss@sf-day.org http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss

_______________________________________________ SFD-discuss mailing list SFD-discuss@sf-day.org http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss

Wow that's really cool! Thanks a lot guys. We'll put something up on SFD website very soon. Thank you. Fred On 07/25/2011 12:41 PM, meric mara wrote:

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

<mailto:pockey@softwarefreedomday.org>>

...

*To:* meric mara <meric_m@yahoo.com <mailto:meric_m@yahoo.com>> *Cc:* Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss@sf-day.org <mailto: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

_______________________________________________ SFD-discuss mailing list SFD-discuss@sf-day.org <mailto:SFD-discuss@sf-day.org>

<mailto:SFD-discuss@sf-day.org <mailto:SFD-discuss@sf-day.org>>

...

http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss

_______________________________________________ SFD-discuss mailing list SFD-discuss@sf-day.org <mailto:SFD-discuss@sf-day.org> http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss

_______________________________________________ SFD-discuss mailing list SFD-discuss@sf-day.org <mailto:SFD-discuss@sf-day.org> http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss