OS related again.

[Michal Seta <mis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 16:34, Kevin Driscoll wrote:

> 
> Actually, Open source audio / music has been available online and from
> BBS's for almost two decades !  I bet there's more than a couple people on this listwho would open their MOD files in a tracker to remix, jack samples, or
> take a lesson in cramming 8 channels worth of music into a 4 channel
> format.

Hmm, I'm not sure about that...  People 'borrowing' from others were
usually flamed and it was considered a bad practice.  Learning tricks
was okay.  But on the other hand, people rarely admitted the borrowing,
so...

> 
> Arguably, the sale of sheet music was an open music format. 

Like between the 6th and 12th century?  Actually, then, sheet music
wasn't sold, it was copied.  Composers were paid by the court, clergy,
whoever could afford it.  Then, music was basically public domain, in
our terms.

>  Of course the
> printed material was copywritten and derivative works couldn't be freely
> published but aspiring performers had free reign to examine the "source
> code" of the music and interpret it at will.

the open public licenses address exactly the freedom of doing with the
work whatever pleases you.

BTW, I don't think that sheet music is the 'source code'.  In case of
generative computer music the source code would be your apps source code
(doh) or a [insert-your-favourite-noise-making-app] patch.  But in case
of instrumental music, where's the source?  Is it the composition of the
composition?  Or the composition of the composition of the composition? 
The score is simply a product of some process.

hmmm... the tool | medium is no longer the message.  The process is the
message.
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