[Freepats] Re: GPL for sound samples

[Marcos Guglielmetti Gmail]

El Sáb 15 Abr 2006 04:20, Mark Constable escribió:
> c) seek out and find some other license that may very well
>    exist for our needs but is as yet undiscovered

Hi, 

Søren Bovbjerg is a guy who made a Steinway soundfont, so I asked him, 
some months ago, if he would like to licence it as GPL... he finally 
say NO, but in the middle, I remember that I ask RMS for help, and in 
one of the mails, I see there is a way for the c) point too:

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Re: License of soundfont
De: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms at gnu.org>
  Para: Søren Bovbjerg <sb at cvmt.dk>
  CC: marcospcmusica at yahoo.com.ar
  Fecha: 28/01/06 17:57
 
Søren Bovbjerg wrote:
    I am sorry to hear that. It seems that GPL prevents Marcos from 
    including the soundfont then.

RMS wrote:
I think there is a misunderstanding.  This issue has nothing to do
with the GNU GPL.

The reason that Marcos cannot use your soundfont is that his goal is
to make a system that is free software.  If your soundfont's license
were a free software license, he could use it.  However, in fact the
license that soundfont now carries is a non-free license.

I could have made GCC non-free, and Linus Torvalds could
have made Linux non-free.  Millions can enjoy freedom
because we did not do so.

Maybe we could help you develop a license that is free and does what
you need.  To the extent that a soundfont is like a font, maybe
something like the Open Font License would do the job.  See
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html for a link to that.
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