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Free music or libre music is music that, like free software, can freely be copied, distributed and modified for any purpose. Thus free music is either in the public domain or licensed under a free license by the artist or copyright holder themselves, often as a method of promotion. It does not mean that there should be no fee involved. The word free refers to freedom (as in free software), not to price. -- wikipedia

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[Question] License for Sheet Music (Lilypond) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by TechieDamien@lemmy.ml to c/libremusic@lemmy.ml

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I have been writing some music (mostly for classical guitar) and have been engraving it with lilypond (fantastic tool for free quality engraving). I want to put all of these compositions into a git repository and release them to the world under a permissive license. I would like to pick a copyleft license a la GPLv3, but cursory research has not turned up much.

My question is should I use a license for code, eg GPLv3, or for more creative works, eg Creative Commons? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT: I have now published them under CC-BY-SA-4.0 at https://git.techiedamien.xyz/TechieDamien/MusicDump.

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[–] TechieDamien@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Thanks for taking the time to explain this to me. I have decided to go with CC-BY-SA-4.0 as it adheres closer to my copyleft ideals.