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

[Miguel Farah <miguel@xxxxx>]

 Mike Kaufman [20/09/2002 17:53] dijo/said:
>On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 08:28:22PM +0000, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
>> 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.
>
>No the idea's not bad at all, but the logistics of the 'political' problem
>is nasty. This is the same reason why I'm not inclined to tackle the idea
>of creating, say, Pakistan in particular after India has a civil war.

I like the idea, BUT... it's bound to present problems at runtime: what
do we do when the game is supposed to play an hymn but there isn't one
available? A "generic flag" can be done, but a "generic hymn" doesn't
make sense.


>> Flags are a headache already. I personally want them replaced with
>> something more neutral and generic.
>
>This idea draws the ire of me. I personally like the flags _very_ much. It
>personalizes the nations much more than the name of the leader or nation.
>After all, you get to see the flag much more often.

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Me too.
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