[Freepats] Fwd: License information for the instrument samples

[Marcos Guglielmetti Gmail]

El Jue 27 Abr 2006 23:36, Mark Constable escribió:
> On Friday 28 April 2006 03:06, Roberto Gordo Saez wrote:
> > I've received a response from Lawrence Fritts (University of Iowa).
> > I've asked for more information about the licence, in order to use
> > their samples in Freepats.
>
> This is excellent news :-)

WE HAVE TO USE THEM!

Do you want me to mail the authors asking again if we could use them 
using the GPL licence?

> > I'm happy... from his response, it looks to
> > me that they can be used. He gives permission, although he
> > mentioned no particular license (maybe they are not copyrighted?).
>
> A slightly strange situation. It appears the webpage itself
> is the pseudo-license, or the statement on their website.
>
> No explicit copyright notice means they are copyrighted, by
> default (since about 1976 I think), by whoever created them.
> The statement on their webpage is the "redistribution license"
> or usage conditions. If they really don't care then a simple
> statement like "These samples contained within this area are
> in the Public Domain" would make all the difference... then
> we could use them, without potential future argument, within
> GPLed soundfonts.. or any packaged system with any license.
>
> > http://theremin.music.uiowa.edu/MIS.html
>
> RMS would not be happy about this as I am sure he would
> insist that "it's in writting" before being safe to use.
>
> It's debatable whether these samples could ever become
> part of a GPL soundfont set... perhaps they can, but I
> can imagine the point could be argued either way.
>
> Nonetheless, they are a fine set of samples and we
> desperately need samples.


YES: when I have some time, I will start including them into soundfont 
files!!! or, just tell me if another people would do that!

> > Mark, in case you are still using a 56k connection, i can upload
> > flac files to some public webspace (saving more than 1 GB).
>
> Hopefully you will have received an email with an FTP URL
> that includes upload access details to the freepats site.

They will be into freepats? great. I could mirror them into musix ftps 
too, just tell me, cheers!



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