[Freepats] Re: License For MIS/TMUE Samples

[Mark Constable]

On Saturday 13 May 2006 23:18, Lawrence Fritts wrote:
> I'm glad to hear that your find the samples useful.

Oh yeah, some of the best of their kind available anywhere.

> How about this:
> The Iowa Musical Instruments Samples are in the Public Domain and may 
> be used in any way that you wish without any restriction whatsoever.

That would be excellent. Do you intend to add this to the
main webpage covering the samples at...

 http://theremin.music.uiowa.edu/MIS.html  ?

If so then we can provide a link to that page when referring
to the source of these samples in any documentation or credits.

FWIW Roberto Gordo Saez has made a start by converting the
samples to wav and then flac for better storage and transfer.

 http://freepats.opensrc.org/samples/tmue/

Hmm, perhaps "tmue" should be renamed to "imis".

> larry

Thank you for your reply and please thank all those involved
for allowing your combined efforts to be freely reused, from
the freepats crew.

> >Hello Lawrence, I am involved with some folks who would like to
> >turn some of your instrument samples at theremin.music.uiowa.edu
> >into sf2 formatted soundfonts. I believe we can do this for our
> >own use but it would be great if others could also reuse our
> >converted sf2 soundfonts, especially by being redistributed via
> >"free" linux distributors (like Debian and Ubuntu).
> >
> >A problem we are going to face is proving to any distributor
> >that the source samples are truly free to re-use because of so
> >much pirating and illegal reuse of samples on the net. If you
> >could convince whoever is responsible for your theremin.m.u.e
> >website to simply include a simple "The samples included herein
> >are in the Public Domain", or similar statement, then that would
> >be great and enable us to encourage distributors to include both
> >your samples and our soundfont conversions.
> >
> >I'm only too happy to offer any advice, within my limits, about
> >any kind of licensing for these samples but a default "in the
> >Public Domain" statement would be appreciated. Apologies if this
> >issue is not your concern or is of any inconvenience.
> >
> >--markc