So why do you pay for libraries?
I would not mind people using my so-called “intellectual property” or the fruit of my artistic endeavors for their own pleasure or broader human flourishing. Heck, even I know that anything originating from myself or any other person will never be entirely or even genuinely original.
So, only when people use my musings for financial gain would I intervene and ask them to share their derived wealth with any identifiable source.
Hence, except for them, would I allow my creative produce to be enjoyed freely. Unless we do so, intellectual property unjustly freezes human and societal development.
Your song is never entirely yours, only partly so, dear Elton.
Philately will get you nowhere
-sorry
the Reaper response is very sensible I think - they basically run a trust system as an open response to piracy. My main concern now is with software hiding behind the leasing model so that you can't on-sell it. I have some good libraries that I never use that I can't sell to someone else - harming both me and someone who would actually use them but can't afford them.Even though I do not use Reaper, I understand that it has a tiered license system that enables users not making money from it to use it for less money. That would be outstanding, but also hard to keep up with because of trust issues.
If you say (a) what is your reason for purchasing something you can get for free, legally?
Is that you, Grampa?
I would not mind people using my so-called “intellectual property” or the fruit of my artistic endeavors for their own pleasure or broader human flourishing. Heck, even I know that anything originating from myself or any other person will never be entirely or even genuinely original.
So, only when people use my musings for financial gain would I intervene and ask them to share their derived wealth with any identifiable source.
Hence, except for them, would I allow my creative produce to be enjoyed freely. Unless we do so, intellectual property unjustly freezes human and societal development.
Your song is never entirely yours, only partly so, dear Elton.
It just sounds like donation ware - see Ivy Audio.
Co-op type things are interesting and to some degree I've done this in the past, some of my Kontakt libraries have been co-op developed by me scripting, someone else supplying samples, and another person doing the graphics and we split the income.What about a library that everyone contributes to?
Except for a few sound fonts there are no sample libraries that are free/libre and of a professional quality unfortunately.you know, stuff to fill in the gaps of what already exists.
Yes the customer definitely has to be aware.But you have to have the clients interested in those reasons and have to let them know before they get your stuff for free elsewhere.
What's the point of this question?
It just sounds like donation ware - see Ivy Audio. You can can get it for free or pay (what ever you want) aka donate.
You're totally right, most users either don't care or don't know that their freedoms are affected by software, but the ones that value their freedom do something about it when they are made aware of it. There isn't really a competition between freeware and libre development though because we have two different goals, I win if my user's freedom is respected regardless of the number of users, you win if you have more users than me(?)I think these are something of the competition whether libre or not since I think libre is important to you but not to most consumers.
I was actually thinking of the VSCO2 sfz version (which is libre software) when I mentioned soundfonts unfortunately there is no libre sfz player that can be used as a plugin (Linux sampler is almost free but not quite). NKI based libraries can't be considered libre, even if the KSP script is accessible, because the NKI is a binary proprietary format, I couldn't run an NKI on Gnu/Linux without reverse engineering Kontakt (or emulating Windows with WINE).Drum'ica for instance is pro level. Ivy Audio I think pushes that level as does Karoryfer. Sampler Science Player is nice though somewhat retro on many sounds.
VSCO2 is certainly better than the soundfonts I'm aware of and I think better than dimension pro orchestral and other older libraries. It is CC0 so I think can be modified at will and might be considered libre? Certainly VPO uses it and Paul is quite passionate about working and reworking that.
Linux sampler is almost free but not quite
LinuxSampler authors said:the commercial exception is just to prevent commercial exploitation by third parties that haven't contributed anything to open source projects