Happy Birthday to Debian (turning 19 on Thursday)

Jon "maddog" Hall maddog at li.org
Tue Aug 14 13:57:51 EDT 2012


On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:15 -0400, John Abreau wrote:
> To be precise, the lyrics are copyrighted. The tune is from
> the 1893 song "Good Morning to All", and is public domain.
> 
> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You
> for references.
> 
> If you can find, or create, alternative lyrics for the tune,
> then you should be all set.

How about a parody to the same tune:

"Happy Rip-off to you?"

> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
> > <rozzin at geekspace.com> wrote:
> >> http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120813
> >>
> >> Thursday is Debian's 19th birthday.
> >>
> >> Anyone doing anything special? Anyone want to?
> >
> >   Just make sure you don't sing "Happy Birthday", as that content is
> > not compliant with the DFSG.
> >
> >   ;-)
> >
> > -- Ben
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