[Freepats] Re: GPL for sound samples

[Richard Stallman]

    To clarify, 2 years ago, in haste, we came up with this license at
    the bottom of this page...

     http://alsa.opensrc.org/FreePats

Could you email me the license text?

    In the case of a multi-sample soundfont set, this could include
    dozens, or more, of individual authors... from a previous message...

Then you should ask a lawyer what to do in the copyright notice.
Maybe it is enough to mention one person.  IANAL.

     and one way to deal with that in, the context of the GPL, is for
     all contributors to assign to a single "neutral owner" of which
     the FSF is the most obvious entity.

Yes, that is one way to do it.  But it is not the only way.
And note that it may be a hassle to find all the past contributors
and convince them to sign papers.

When that is difficult, it isn't absolutely necessary.
You could use a different option in cases of difficulty.

     This only applies to a single "set of instrument patches" which
     includes multiple samples by a number of people. The FSF may or
     may not want to have their name legally associated with the
     license and our potential exemption.

I don't understand that.

    A question: would the FSF accept our, so far still evolving, exemption
    clause ?

If you mean the one that I've been discussing with people in this
thread, definitely we would.