[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Sounds: midi national hymnes for diplomacy?

["Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Gerrit Holl wrote:
> I have a proposal. As sound, midi's of the national hymne could be
> played. These are not GPL but free of copyright. The gameplay moment
> this could be done is when diplomacy is done with a certain nation, and
> for example when a nation splits in civil war (the new countries' hymne
> could be played).

The songs themselves may be public domain, but any composition of them in
MIDI form will surely be copyrighted unless explicitly stated that this is
not the case. Can you find public domain MIDI versions of all those
nations?

> A problem of this is that many nations are not present nations, and it
> has a political problem in some cases, but I think the idea is not bad.

Flags are a headache already. I personally want them replaced with
something more neutral and generic.

For ancient nations, surely there is some kind of music that fits, but the
above comment on copyright applies here as well.

Yours
Per

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