> As for electronic music, I'd like to imagine that composers are free to share their samples alongside their sheet music - like source code samples to a comput

> As for electronic music, I'd like to imagine that composers are free to share their samples alongside their sheet music - like source code samples to a computer science textbook - but I doubt it. Tracker music is exactly that. Also I do agree that the concept of open source should be spread to other fields. Sharing just the mastered recording or the final picture is equivalent to sharing just the binary for software.