The LOCA Music Public License (MPL)
Version 0.5 (04 June, 2003)
Version 0.5, June 2003
Copyright (C) 2003 LOCA
RECORDS.
PO Box 233, Brighton, Sussex. BN2 3WX
www.locarecords.comEveryone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim
copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
Preamble
This is a copyleft license designed specifically for music based on the
GNU General Public License and the Free Music Public License (0.7). The
LOCA Music Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share
and change free music--to make sure the music is free for all its users.
When we speak of free music, we are referring to freedom, not price. The
LOCA Music Public License is designed to make sure that you have the freedom
to distribute copies of free music (and charge for this service if you
wish), that you receive source files (samples, sequencer files, settings
etc) or can get it if you want it, that you can change the music or use
samples of it in new free music; and that you know you can do these things.
To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone
to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights. These
restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you distribute
copies of the music, or if you modify it.
For example, if you distribute copies of this music, whether gratis or
for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that you have.
You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code.
And you must show them these terms so they know their rights.
We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the music, and (2)
offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy, distribute
and/or modify the music.
Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain that
everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free music. If
the music is modified by someone else and passed on, we want its recipients
to know that what they have is not the original, so that any problems
introduced by others will not reflect on the original authors' reputations.
Finally, any free music is threatened constantly by performace rights.
We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of free music will individually
obtain copyright or performance rights, in effect making the music proprietary.
To prevent this, we have made it clear that any performance rights must
be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.
The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification
follow.
Definitions
The "License" refers to this license, and "You" refers to the licensee. The "Music" refers to any work distributed or performed under this license (though we recommend you use a different license for software). A "Contributor" to the Music is any individual who created any part of the Music (including performing in a sound recording) which would be worthy of copyright under copyright law. "Permission" is permission from a Contributor to sell copies of the Music, or charge for access to the Music. Contributors and Permission are described in more detail below. "Work based on the Music", "Collection", and "Maintainer" (of this License) are defined below.
Personal Use
You make make unlimited copies of the Music for personal use, and listen to the music without restriction.
Distributing the Music for free
You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Music for free (gratis),
in any medium, provided:
• You give the recipient a copy of this License.
• You give credit to all Contributors to the Music, to the best of
your knowledge.
• If it is impractical to provide all the above information in a
given medium, you may instead:
• Make known to the recipient that you are distributing the Music
under this License.
• Provide a way that they can get a copy of the License, and information
about the Contributors, rapidly and free of charge. For example, if you
wish to distribute the Music as an mp3, it is enough to put, in the ID3
tag, "LPL'ed", and a (working) URL with a copy of this License
and information about the Contributors to this work.
Selling copies of the Music (with Permission)
If you wish to sell copies of the Music, or charge
for access to it, you must:
• Meet the conditions for gratis distribution.
• Get Permission from at least one Contributor to the work (this
may be yourself).
• Tell the person paying, before they pay, which Contributor(s) gave
you Permission are, and how they contributed to the work, and, to the
best of your knowledge, who the other Contributors are. You are encouraged
but not required to make known how the Contributor(s) are being compensated.Distributing
works based on the Music
A "work based on the Music" means either a derivative work of
the Music (under copyright law), a cover of the Music, or any work based
on a work based on the Music.
You may create and distribute works based on the Music, provided you distribute
them under this version of the License, and/or any later version(s).
Collections
A "Collection" is a mere aggregation
of works on a volume of a storage or distribution medium.
You may aggregate the Music with other works without bringing the other
works under the scope of the License. However, you may not apply this
License to a Collection as a whole; it must apply only to the individual
parts.
Performing the Music
You may peform the work, gratis or for a fee, provided:
• You do not interfere with attempts to record the performance (i.e.
you allow bootlegging).
• You make known to the audience that the Music is being peformed
under this License. (You are not required to explain the license or distribute
copies of it, or even interrupt your performance if you find some other
way of informing people, like printing it on fliers or tickets). You may
distribute recordings you make of Music peformed under this License, under
this License, and/or any later version(s).
No Further Restrictions
You may not impose any further restrictions on the Music, or works based on the Music, beyond those restrictions described in this License. If for any reason, conditions are imposed on you that forbid you to fulfill the conditions of this License, you may not copy, distribute, modify, cover, or perform the Music at all.
Acceptance
Distributing, performing, or making or distributing a work based on the Music indicates acceptance of these terms. If you do not follow the terms of this License, any rights granted to you by the License are null and void.
Contributors and Permission
Only indviduals may qualify as Contributors. Contributor
status is non-transferrable, and ends with the life of the Contributor.
Contributors need not hold the copyright to to their contribution to qualify
as a Contributor.
Permission may be unlimited or conditional (though conditions that restrict
the Music itself will generally result in it not being distributable under
this License). Permission may extend after the life of the Contributor
if it was phrased that way.
Contributors may make binding contracts about what to do with any proceeds
they receive from the Music. However, these contracts may not bind third
parties (such as Contributors to works based on the Music), or restrict
the Music itself.
This License
You may copy and redistribute verbatim copies of this License without restriction. You may distribute the license with a different Preamble as long as you do not place restrictions on copying, distributing, or modifying your new Preamble, and do not misrepresent the License. The Preamble is not a binding part of this License.
The Maintainer of this License may publish revised and/or new versions of this License from time to time. Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to address new problems or concerns. The Maintainer is currently David from LOCA Records, but the Maintainership will pass to an appropriate non-profit organization once one is formed. From then on the Maintainership may be passed voluntarily from one non-profit organization to another; there can only be one Maintainer at any given time. In the event that the current Maintainer dissolves, or dies, the Free Software Foundation (currently of Cambridge, MA) will become the Maintainer.
