Happy Birthday to Debian (turning 19 on Thursday)

Greg Rundlett (freephile) greg at freephile.com
Tue Aug 14 16:31:15 EDT 2012


DFSG-compliant parody:

"Happy Freedom to you"

Greg Rundlett



On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Jon "maddog" Hall <maddog at li.org> wrote:

> 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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