I've been looking at the timidity-patches package, because I've been looking for a decent MIDI patch set for an unrelated project, and that patch set is a good one. The package has no license. Looking into it, timidity-patches turns out to have been put together from patch files taken from the Midia patch set, distributed with the Midia MIDI renderer that ran on SGI workstations. Midia and its patch set can be obtained from: http://www.csee.umbc.edu/pub/midia/ It's released as binary only, and is not supplied with a license, or even a README. The closest I've found is the string: Midia 2.0 (beta) Copyright (c) 1994 ...within the midia binary itself. The patches don't have any license, either, except for doo.pat: Mike's Doo Copyright (C) 1993 Forte. All Rights Reserved. Doesn't this make timidity-patches non-free? In fact, surely it's not distributable at all? Someone please prove me wrong... -- +- David Given --McQ-+ Did you hear about the hard-working but ill sage | dg@cowlark.com | who got cursed with garlic breath? He was a | (dg@tao-group.com) | super-calloused fragile mystic hexed with +- www.cowlark.com --+ halitosis.
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