hi the eff has come up with an open audio license that is tries to facilitate for music what the GPL has done for software: http://www.eff.org/IP/Open_licenses/eff_oal.php and as far as open source docs go, the gnu manifesto is pretty much ground zero: http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html -- \js /;[+&"; #!-[[^? /|*';"?/~ ) ------------------------------