Free software song

Richard Stallman singing the Free Software Song

Interpretation of Bulgarian art by several artists

The Free Software Song is a song by Richard Stallman about free software . The song belongs to the filk genre and uses the melody of the Bulgarian folk song Sadi Moma .

Emergence

According to Richard Stallman, the song was on a science fiction - Convention , which probably took place in early 1,991th There Stallman took part with about twenty other people in a "bardic circle", in which each participant in turn had the opportunity to sing a song or ask someone else to do it. Stallman then spontaneously wrote the Free Software Song because, as far as he knew, no one had written a Filk song about free software and it was high time.

melody

$\ relative c '{\ key g \ major \ time 7/8 d'4 c8 b4 a4 b4 c8 b8 [(a)] g4 g4. a4. (b8) c4. b4 \ grace b8 d4 \ break a4. a2 d4 (c8 b2) d4 c8 b4 a4 b4 c8 b8 [(a)] g4 \ break g4. a4. (b8) c4. b4 \ grace b8 d4 a4. a2 a4. (a2) \ bar "|." } \ addlyrics {Join us now and share the software; you'll be __ free, ha - ckers, you'll be free. __ Join us now and share the software; you'll be __ free, ha - ckers, you'll be free. __} \ addlyrics {Hoar - ders can get piles of mo - ney; that is __ true, ha - ckers, that is true. __ But they can - not help their neigh- - bors; that's not __ good, ha - ckers, that's not good. __} \ addlyrics {When we have e - nough free soft - ware at our __ call, ha - ckers, at our call, __ we'll kick out those \ set ignoreMelismata = ## t dir - ty li - cen - ses \ unset ignoreMelismata e - ver __ more, ha - ckers, e - ver more. __} \ addlyrics {Join us now and share the software; you'll be __ free, ha - ckers, you'll be free. __ Join us now and share the software; you'll be __ free, ha - ckers, you'll be free. __}$

text

Singing the Free Software Song together with MQuintus on the 30C3

The text of the song is in the public domain and reads:

Join us now and share the software;
You'll be free, hackers, you'll be free.
Join us now and share the software;
You'll be free, hackers, you'll be free.

Hoarders can get piles of money,
that is true, hackers, that is true.
But they cannot help their neighbors;
That's not good, hackers, that's not good.

When we have enough free software
At our call, hackers, at our call,
We'll kick out those dirty licenses
Ever more, hackers, ever more.

Join us now and share the software;
You'll be free, hackers, you'll be free.
Join us now and share the software;
You'll be free, hackers, you'll be free.

reception

Heavy metal version by Jono Bacon

Over the years, many cover versions and reinterpretations were created. There is, for example, a metal and a techno version. The Free Software Song appears in the documentation Revolution OS and Codename: Linux .

Web links

Commons : Free Song Software - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

The Free Software Song on the official GNU Project website
Richard Stallman - Free Software Song on YouTube
a SATB choral setting on the Choral Public Domain Library , the same arrangement on musescore.org/ , and again the same arrangement on the website of the International Music Score Library Project

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b The Free Software Song. Retrieved September 19, 2011 .
^ Writing the Free Software Song. Retrieved September 19, 2011 .
^ Jono Bacon: Metal Free Software Song 2: This Time It's Personal. June 15, 2011, accessed September 19, 2011 .

[FSS-1] The Free Software Song. Retrieved September 19, 2011 .

[2] Writing the Free Software Song. Retrieved September 19, 2011 .

[3] Jono Bacon: Metal Free Software Song 2: This Time It's Personal. June 15, 2011, accessed September 19, 2011 .