Hello Nexuiz developers! First I want to thank you for making such excellent releases!

I am one of the digital musicians from Medusa Panacea. We recently posted a big chunk of our music online under the CC-By-NC-SA license, and are looking for cool open source game projects that would like to integrate our work. Sure it's unlikely, but we'd be honored for it to land in Nexuiz. The songs are free to stream and download from:

http://soundclick.com/medusapanacea

The songs there are in 128kbps MP3, but we'd be glad to provide full-quality versions (in whatever format) if you want to use them.

We are continually posting new songs, so please check back later too!

Thank you!

Well, if you want music to be featured in Nexuiz you'd have to released them under GPL version 2 I believe. CC is incompatible with GPL.
Unless you make them separate files for a separate download with that license specified. Thus, this would be an option for people to download. But releasing it together with Nexuiz won't work.

At least, this is my impression, I bet someone will clear this up shortly.

ai wrote:Well, if you want music to be featured in Nexuiz you'd have to released them under GPL version 2 I believe. CC is incompatible with GPL.
Unless you make them separate files for a separate download with that license specified. Thus, this would be an option for people to download. But releasing it together with Nexuiz won't work.

At least, this is my impression, I bet someone will clear this up shortly.

First and foremost is whether you want to use them . We're more than happy to license them as GPL for you They were originally GPL until we decided that CC was much more appropriate for the content.

Wow, you guys do have some great music. I haven't yet listened to them all but I'm on good way to do that.
Some would in my opinion fit Nexuiz like 'Dead To Me', 'Encumbered' and 'Concord'. Btw, 'Game On' just ends abruptly for me, unfinished work or something wrong with the site?
'Lucid' is downright beautiful, at the beginning I'm getting a jazz feel but later on it seems to switch style a bit (I don't know, trance-like?). I love the middle part and to the end. The ending is a bit sad though, could be made a bit nicer in my opinion, like slowly knowing that it's ending instead of cutting it off like that.

I'll keep listening to the other songs and if some comments pop up in my mind I will post them. Together with which songs I believe could fit Nexuiz. Then we would have to see what others thought as well. I'm not the one deciding this, but if many people feel the same as I there could be a future I think.

Cheers.

Awesome stuff! If you'd release as GPL_v2 then yes, some of them should definitely go into Nexuiz!

Licensing under GPL v2/3 is available. I should mention we've also been talking to the Sauerbraten community, and some people there also would like to use the music in mods but are concerned about the Nc license. The example was putting advertising on a website to help with costs. I should say that we would never consider that particular example to be commercial -- ESPECIALLY if the project is open source or creative commons. But GPL is a good solution.

Btw, For those who want to cut through the lighter stuff, check out Captive, Encumbered, Revolve, Concord etc.

On further analysis it looks like GPLv2 licensing could be problematic. We're trying to get a hold of some pro bono lawyers who can provide some advice on how to proceed with licensing.

If you could give us a list of the tracks you want to use, then we'll consider GPLing just those for you.

it is media. so I don't see any problem with using "cc-sa" media in nexuiz. The real problem is when you add "nc"

Nope, Nexuiz can't include non-GPL media, as this would severely hinder distribution of Nexuiz e.g. with Linux distributions.

BSD or MIT license would work, of course, as that is compatible to the GPL.

epicgoo wrote:it is media. so I don't see any problem with using "cc-sa" media in nexuiz. The real problem is when you add "nc"

As far as I know, the "nc" part in Creative Commons still allows commercial use if the author approves.

But Nexuiz content needs a gpl-compatible licence anyway

Mr. Bougo wrote:

epicgoo wrote:it is media. so I don't see any problem with using "cc-sa" media in nexuiz. The real problem is when you add "nc"

As far as I know, the "nc" part in Creative Commons still allows commercial use if the author approves.

But Nexuiz content needs a gpl-compatible licence anyway

FL/OSS can't be a license given only to a certain project (X can only be used by project Y commercially). Violates the freedom to distribute principle. A nice thing about the GPL, ofcourse, is that no one can ever lockup whatever additions they make to your work, you always get paid back in "labor" (the additions made to the work is also GPL). The wonder of recursive licensing .

tundramagi wrote:

Mr. Bougo wrote:

epicgoo wrote:it is media. so I don't see any problem with using "cc-sa" media in nexuiz. The real problem is when you add "nc"

As far as I know, the "nc" part in Creative Commons still allows commercial use if the author approves.

But Nexuiz content needs a gpl-compatible licence anyway

FL/OSS can't be a license given only to a certain project (X can only be used by project Y commercially). Violates the freedom to distribute principle. A nice thing about the GPL, ofcourse, is that no one can ever lockup whatever additions they make to your work, you always get paid back in "labor" (the additions made to the work is also GPL). The wonder of recursive licensing .

You're right, I totally forgot about the re-usability!

Also, recursive licencing as you call it is a good thing, it seems. But I hope it does not go out of control after a while :p