Infinite Hands - singing a part of the history of free software (filk)

- Free Software version of "Finity's End"; original: {lyrics: CJ
Cherryh, music: Leslie Fish}.
- filked by Draketo aka Arne Babenhauserheide (draketo.de) (capo
3)


 


- please check the dedicated site:
http://infinite-hands.draketo.de -


 


Songtext for printing and passing on: pdf | odt (source) |
txt
Audio-files: ogg | mp3
This recording is part of the music podcast singing in the winds
of time.
==== Infinite Hands ==== C a D a Infinite Hands build a world
to be free, E G a the digital space we all know, C (a) D a
unlimited use has the code that we write, C G a and freedom's the
badge we all show. C D a The stuff runs our servers, our desktops
and grids, D a by uncounted hands it was made, a D a set out in the
wild on the day it is born, C D a for our free running, long coding
trade. Ref: C a D a And no law shall bind us or keep us for long, E
G a for infinity's ours and infinity's free, C a D a and no country
owns us, and no land's our own, C G a for Infinite Hands are we.
The companies thought that they'd pay us for lines, and have all
the code for their own. "You're company people and company teams,
your code will now serve us alone." R.Stallman was only a student
that day, and he said to himself, thinking deep: Farewell to a job,
all my code shall be free, for what they don't own, they can't
keep. -Ref- The miracle came, he did not change his mind and
gathered around him a crew, and people could buy his free programs
from him, sent by mail and his money got through. At times others
came and they said, "We're free, too, you can take code as if in a
mall. It will be only yours then, just say it's from us, and it
runs and compiles where you call." -Ref: But... - Now Richard M.
Stallman was vexed and annoyed, and he sent out the word as before:
"All code must be free, free to use and improve, which our license
ensures evermore." But still many coders were lured from our ranks,
Now for Windows and Apple they strived, - spoken in background: And
for Amiga, BeOS, IBM, and many more - their doom and their fall
came from finland one day, as to GNU a free kernel arrived. -Ref-
"Come all to U.S.", came a call spreading wide, "for there is no
place else you can be." - spoken in background: DMCA, DRM, TCPA,
software patents, idea patents and a war on terror - But Richard M.
Stallman still sent out the word, that all code from now on must be
free. So code would stay free and our teams did grow strong, but
some loopholes remained in our side, which traitors like TiVo
exploited to steal, so we needed a change in the right. - Ref- ...
no words ... So our license reshaped by the people and GNU, for
code contributed to trade, And orders be none to withhold us or
bind, C E a No law on our code but the license we made. Ref: C a D
a Just that law shall bind us and keep us for long, E G a for
infinity's ours and infinity's free, C a D a and no country owns
us, and no land's our own, C G a for Infinite Hands/Lines are we. C
E C (G) a are we, for Infinite Hands/Lines are we.

Background:
This is a part of the story of free software, although it misses
some details. While "Finity's End" was a work of fiction (the
book is avaible on amazon.com, amazon.de and maybe at
bookzilla.de), this story really happened and happens
today.
For additional information please refer to GNU.


Licensing:
This song is free art avaible under the following four licenses
(for details, please visit draketo.de/licenses). Permission to
filk her work freely was granted by Leslie Fish (cite: "Anything
to keep the internet free: Go for it!" - she's great! - maybe
you'd like to listen in on her music?) and CJ Cherryh.


- GNU FDL
- GPLv2 or later or GPLv3 or later
- Art Libre v1.3 or later
- Lizenz für freie Inhalte v1.0 webstar


You can use any of those four licenses, because I can't yet know
which license will make it to the general license for free art.
Please keep all four licenses when you make changes, so we avoid
licensing chaos. It doesn't use creative commons licensing,
because cc does not protect the free avaibility of the sources
(Just think LaTeX and pdf).
Sources: infinite-hands.draketo.de


It was written by Draketo aka Arne Babenhauserheide, finished on
2007-09-28, improved by Alan Thiesen 2007-10-08.
Copyright 2007 Arne Babenhauserheide.
It's first public performance was at FilkCONtinental2007 (A filk
convention on the Freusburg in Germany)


Missing topics: DRM, SCO, Open Source – I'd be glad to get
suggestions from you! ( just use the comment field )


Arne Babenhauserheide

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