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…

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Mc

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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