[WikiEN-l] GFDL for uploaded audio clips

Mon Feb 7 22:32:32 UTC 2005

Hello everyone

I'm still on extended wikivacation in general but am undertaking a
project to add music clips.  I plan to record my own playing of certain
well-known classical keyboard works and add them to the encyclopedia. 
While I am not a great performer, I hope to provide some material of
reasonable quality, and hope to inspire others to contribute in like
fashion.

The GFDL poses problems.  I would prefer not to use it and to use
CC-by-SA only. 
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode)

The main problem with the GFDL is that, for a recording of a musical
work, the "transparent copy" -- the "preferred form for modification"
is unclear.  It could be construed to be the WAV file or a lossless
(FLAC etc) encoding of it.  These files are prohibitively large.  It
could also be construed to be the musical score, or the case could be
made that there is no "transparent copy" and that the license is
meaningless.  There are also some audio-specific and music-specific
matters addressed by CC-by-SA, but not by the GFDL.

There are very few audio clips uploaded thus far.  I am only aware of
one that is not public domain (though there may be others).  Therefore,
this is still a solvable problem.

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