License question

[Wouter Vanden Hove]

Paolo Gianrossi wrote:

>I was wondering under what kind of license one could release music (i mean
>real songs, on a CD or something, not computer game music or the like).
>  
>

I've compiled a list of such free (and some less free) licenses.
http://www.opencursus.be/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=100
[Some parts are in Dutch]

For Music there are:

The EFF Open Audio License
http://www.eff.org/IP/Open_licenses/eff_oal.html

The Free Art License (GPL-based)
http://artlibre.org/licence.php/lalgb.html

The Open Music License (green, yellow, red)
http://openmusic.linuxtag.org/showitem.php?item=209

The Free Music Public License (FPMPL, GPL-based)
http://www.musique-libre.com/fmpl.html

The Free Media License (GPL-based)
https://expressivefreedom.org/copyleft/fml.html

The Open Source Music License (GPL-based)
http://www.rootrecords.org/osml.html

Choral Public Domain Library (CDPL, GPL-based)
http://cpdl.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=1


w.