[dot] amaroK Teams Up with CC/Wired CD to Create amaroK Live

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1110426963/

From: GMeyer <greg at gkmweb.com>
Dept: yet-another-LiveCD
Date: Thursday 10/Mar/2005, @04:56

amaroK Teams Up with CC/Wired CD to Create amaroK Live
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   The amaroK [http://amarok.kde.org/] development team has teamed up
with the Creative Commons sponsored Wired CD
[http://creativecommons.org/wired/], published last year by Wired
Magazine, to create a really cool Live CD called amaroK Live
[http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/index.php/AmaroK_Live]. It is an interesting
extension of the project started by Wired using the Creative Commons
licensing technique, which includes many of the principles embodied in
free software.

     The KDE-centric PCLinuxOS LiveCD distro
[http://www.pclinuxonline.com/pclos/index.html] was used as a base to
create this really cool Live CD.  amaroK Live is not so much a Live CD
distro as it is a demonstration of a really cool music player.  It is a
stripped down Live CD (only 289MB including the music) with a fully
functional amaroK music player bundled with the tracks commissioned last
year by Wired Magazine, which are distributed under the Creative Commons
Sampling Licenses. It includes - among other major artists - tracks by
the Beastie Boys and David Byrne.

     The tracks can all be legally shared for non-commercial purposes
(some also allow commercial use) and can even be used to make derivative
works using sampling techniques.