Acceptable for inclusion: drumkits for hydrogen

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 22:18 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 06:28 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> > Hiyas,
> > 
> > according to 
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#head-daa717ea096fa4d9cf7b9a49b5edb36e3bda3aac 
> > non code packages need permission from FESCo to get included, I want to ask 
> > whether hydrogen drumkits are permitted for inclusion:
> > 
> > http://www.hydrogen-music.org/?p=drumkits
> > 
> > These are .tar.gz files, that contain .wav files, that can be used in hydrogen 
> > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=190040) to create 
> > (drum) music.
> 
> So long as the content/music itself is Free (licensed under an
> appropriate Creative Commons deed, for example) I'd think it would be
> okay for inclusion, since it's not stand-alone content; but rather data
> to augment an already packaged (?) application. 

>From what I saw by sneaking into a subset of these files,
- They lack any license or copyright information.

- They are sound files (sound samples), being usable stand-alone with a
little processing (They are plain tar.gz's of *.wav's and *.flac's)
being obscured by using a nonstandard file suffix).

- Question, I don't know the answer to: Do these sound samples qualify
as "artwork" (and therefore have to be considered to be covered by
"artistic" copyright laws)?

Ralf