Re: "Copyleft" music?

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From: John B. Melby
Date: Wed, 29 May 1991 15:48

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>The advantages that the `GNU General Public License' (a.k.a. copyleft)
>affords programmers could be used likewise by musicians for rapid,
>widespread distribution.

It looks as though something of the sort is already being done...in
comp.windows.x, mcw@ukc.ac.uk (M.C.Wheadon) writes:

>The author had been intending to release [the ups debugger] to the net for
>years.  What finally pushed him into releasing it?
>
>"Just One More Hack and I'll Put it on the Net" - a song about a debugger.
>
>Available in SPARC audio format at an ftp site near you:
>
>        uunet.uu.net: tmp/ups-song.au
>                      tmp/ups-song.ms (lyrics sheet)

I haven't heard the song, so I'm not sure about the musical quality, but
anyway....

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John B. Melby
Fujitsu Limited, Machida, Japan
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