[Rrolack]

The title of this thread says it all. Currently, if an indie album is offered on a site which is known to obtain official licenses for their releases, e.g. Bandcamp, are marked as Commercial rather than Doujin/Indie.

As an alternative to this, we might mark an indie album as Doujin/Indie regardless of its licensing status.


Has this alternative been seriously considered? I ask for a few reasons:

- Personally when I am classifying an album, whether or not it's officially licensed isn't really relevant. An indie album which got licensed is still an indie album.
- In order to use licensing status to classify albums, we need to know the licensing status of every album. We don't actually know this, and as a workaround, we often make assumptions. For example, every Japanese doujin is assumed to be unlicensed, which might not be right. Should we really be classifying albums based on assumptions like these?


I'd be curious to hear any and all thoughts on this!