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Re: Uploaded timidity-patches 0.1-3 (source all) to master



On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 03:00:13AM +1000, Martin Mitchell wrote:
> Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi> writes:

> > > Source: timidity-patches

> > Uhh... Is the copyright surely clear? I remember that 4-front tech was
> > nearly sued for distributing stuff only mentioned for GUS ownners...
 
> >From the copyright:
 
> >From the README on archive.cs.umbc.edu:

>  1) GUS instruments were freely obtained from anonymous ftp site:
>     archive.epas.utoronto.ca        /pub/pc/ultrasound/gravis/disk

So they were extracted from the GUS install disks packed on the net?
Not everything avaible on anon ftp is free... Netscape comes in mind.
If there isn't a specific mention that you can redistribute it, you
are not allowed to redistribute it. And nowhere it is mentioned that
you could modify anything, so this definetly doesn't go through DFSG...

-- 
Joh 3:16


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