Free Software and Free Music

1. Free Software for Free Sound

3. Why?

4. Arts and Free Software

5. Free Software and Linux for Audio and Music

6. Conclusions

8. Freedom 2: freedom to study and adapt to your own needs

9. Freedom 3: freedom to copy

10. Freedom 4: freedom to redistribute

11. Free (Libre) as in Freedom not as in Beer

12. Freedom is kept through the viral license policy (mainly GPL)

14. To use free software is to make a political and ethical choice asserting the right to learn, and share what we learn with others. Free software has become the foundation of a learning society where we share our knowledge in a way that others can build upon and enjoy.

15. The FSF campaigns for free software adoption and against proprietary software. Threats to free software include Digital Restrictions Management (DRM), Software Patents and Treacherous Computing. Find out more about our campaigns, and ways to volunteer.

17. It abandons idealistic thinking related to Free Software and only promotes practical advantages related to being able to read the code of a piece of software.

18. As a result of that there are now about 50 approved different open source licenses, even some by Microsoft..

20. Starts the GNU Project (1983)

21. Defines Free Software (1985)

22. Introduces the GPL (free software license) (1985)

23. Linus Torvald

24. Develops the Linux kernel (1991)

27. Security (kerchoff's principle)

28. Estability

29. Collaborative effort of large communities

30. Price

31. Although interesting, there are even more important reasons...

33. that then extend to hardware

34. FLOSS does not kill software industry

35. FLOSS can be comercial

36. It promotes the culture of paying for services, not arbitrarily priced licences

37. Large companies like IBM or Novell are already basing part of their business around FLOSS

39. Technology is more than a tool: it is a learning environment in itself

40. Within education we must present with several perspectives and favor criticism and dialog

41. University teaches how to learn not how to use a particular tool

42. Coding is not only for programmers but for scientists, artists, children...

44. Nowadays implementation is actually part of the result

45. Software is and should be considered in many cases like some other sort of publication

46. With Free Software we:

47. Facilitate for others to compare results

48. Preserve knowledge

50. Communicate

51. Educate

52. Work

53. Software should be considered as cultural heritage

54. Software will condition more and more the vision of the world new generations have

55. Who should control these aspects of society? A single

56. company? Two companies?

58. In order to fully understand a piece of art we need to understand the techniques

59. Digital Piece of Art = Content + Techniques + System

60. In order to fully undertand a digital piece of art we also need to understand the system and be able to access it to the lowest level (code!)

62. Would Mozart have composed a line of music for an instrument he wasn't exactly sure what was doing internally or producing its sound?

63. Would Michelangelo have painted the Sixtine Chapel using a strange device that might have been recording his personal conversations while painting

64. An artist needs to be in full control of the tools (be able to modify, adapt, copy, redistribute...)

65. This can be done personally or through trusted technical staff

67. Systems that are closed and proprietary in general cannot be preserved

68. There are already key compositions in Computer Music that have already been lost because the original (closed) system cannot be reproduced

69. Digital Art Preservation = FLOSS

70. Creative Commons In music mainly Creative Commons Lisences are used to share and remix music. The Free Software Foundation has only approved two of the 6 available CC Licenses as being free: CC-BY v2.0 CC-BY-SA v2.0

72. See http://freesound.iua.upf.edu or http://www.ccmixter.org/

74. Amarok

75. Ardour

76. Rosegarden

77. Muse

78. Rosegarden

79. Planet CCRMA

80. Agnula

81. etc.

83. Low latency

84. Stability

85. Standard protocols

86. Very active community

87. ...

89. Most of the previous apps are compatible with Windows/OSX

90. But if you are not going to use proprietary software...

91. what is the point of not using Linux?

93. A few popular:

94. Ubuntu – a good distribution for beginners

95. Debian – where Ubuntu is based on

96. Fedora

97. Gentoo – for the more expierenced users

98. GnewSense – totally free Linux distro

99. Dynebolic (multi-media distro) Etc..

100. See: http://distrowatch.com/

101. (cd's can be ordered there at low costs, but you can also download all of these distro's from their original websites)

103. http://www.opsound.org/

104. http://www.jamendo.com

106. Freedom of Expression => Free Software

107. The future of digital arts is at stake

108. If you are convinced to use FLOSS there is no reason not to use Linux

109. If developing your own app. try to first see if you can build it out of an existing open framework.

111. It is available under this license:

112. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/

113. The originial can be found here:

114. http://www.slideshare.net/xamat/free-software-for-free-sound-1824828