Hi,
I'm not sure I understand how the project came into this "accidental
cost" situation... From my understanding, everything the project creates
or funds is under a copyleft license, which means CC-BY-SA (or CC-BY as
it's compatible) for assets (and we make it quite clear in the about
screen contest, for instance) - So was this music created / contracted
specifically for this project under a non-foss license and how did that
happen ? Or was it chosen for this project despite the wrong license ?
It's clearly ok to pay for music in videos, but is the music cost
usually separate/additional from the budget for the creation of the video ?
Here from my pov we are implicitly voting on "The Inkscape project
spends a part of its donations to release that specific music from a
non-foss license into the copyleft world", which is a nice gesture to
the world and my vote is /(a)/ because as far as I understand doing so
has benefits in particular to our release video for a "small" cost, but
I'd still like to know if there was a miscommunication somewhere that
could have been prevented…
--
Mc
On 5/4/22 20:51, C R wrote:
> Hey folks. This is just a quickie ask to reimburse Martin for footing the
> music license fee for our current release video. This is a one-time cost,
> and not setting any precedent for future video costs, or otherwise.
>
> Those in the video discussion on GitLab wanted a more permissive license
> for the new video music which would allow us to upload it with the video
> assets, so they can be used freely under CC-BY-SA. The decision was made in
> haste because the author of the music is going on holiday and needs the
> money now, and our release is only days away.
>
> There are lots of things we can do to prevent this in the future, but
> that's quite beside the point imho. This is an accidental cost that was
> covered by Martin, and I think it's not too much of a one-off ask to pay
> him back for it.
>
> Please vote:
> A. Reimburse 91 Euros to Martin for paying for a FOSS-friendly license for
> the current video music track for the project's benefit.
> B. Don't reimburse.
>
> Note: In the future we will be using exclusively CC-BY-SA or better from
> the beginning since we discovered that CC-BY-ND doesn't work for remixing
> or uploading to gitlab.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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