Salamander piano and drums are now public domain

[Kirtai]

See https://rytmenpinne.wordpress.com/2022/03/04/good-news-everyone/ for the announcement.

[zenvoid]

We were debating this long time, and I'm sorry to say that we finally decided to reject public domain works which are not under CC0. I copy the relevant part of the announcement here:

As you may know, Creative Commons CC0 is essentially a public domain dedication, but it also contains a permissive license as fallback for countries where dedicating a work into the public domain is not possible. We think that the fallback is very important. The core of FreePats developers are in one of those european countries where the concept of public domain is widely different than the one in USA.

The GNU project says: If you want to release your work to the public domain, we encourage you to use formal tools to do so. We ask people who make small contributions to GNU to sign a disclaimer form; that's one solution. If you're working on a project that doesn't have formal contribution policies like that, CC0 is a good tool that anyone can use. It formally dedicates your work to the public domain, and provides a fallback license for cases where that is not legally possible.

FreePats doesn't currently have formal contribution policies, and I think that it would be much easier to simply direct authors to CC0 in first place. But sometimes we may not be able to reach all authors, or they may refuse to use CC0... in those cases and to be safe, public domain samples won't be accepted.

[LoveBodhi]

Stardream SDOSLL is the replacement of GPL v3 + FP Exception and CC-BY, just needs to retain copyrights or give credit.