Contribute music to an open source game?

by Risa Dickens

Was just breezing through Planet Fedora, doing a little happy grazing and looking around now that I’ve been UPgRAded (woo!) to Fedora 7, and noticed this fun call for CC licensed musical contributions for a game that comes in the Fedora distribution. This would be a great / funny opportunity to get your sounds out to a game playing, linux loving crowd. If that’s your bag, then get in touch with this guy:

Hello interweb. I need help. (This is going out to a few places, as to hopefully have it picked up)

One of my Fedora packages (rocksndiamonds) has a slight problem. Turns out that some of its audio files are straight copies of music which was used without permission.

Full details are here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245435

Rather than pull the game out of Fedora entirely, (it is pretty fun, and the music is the only real blocker) I’d like to replace the music with freely distributable music. So, this could be your big chance!

Are you a musician? Is someone you know a musician? Would you be willing to give us some music under a Creative Commons license (Attribution or Attribution-ShareAlike only)?

We don’t need whole songs, just short sound samples that will endlessly loop while the game plays. The clips do not need to be long, the longest one in the above list is 14 seconds. The format needed is .wav.

If you’re willing to help, please email me (tcallawa@redhat.com). Without replacing this music, we’ll have to remove this game from the Fedora package collection.

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