Re: The GPL and soundfonts
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 09:51:11AM -0700, Walter Landry wrote:
> Terry Hancock <hancock@anansispaceworks.com> wrote:
> > IMHO, the license of the sequencing software you used is completely
> > irrelevant. You USE a toolchain when you create with it, you don't
> > DERIVE from it (the exception being things like libraries -- or
> > soundfonts -- that get incorporated into the resulting work).
> >
> > So, the soundfont license needs to be very permissive, but I don't think
> > there should be any concern about the tool used to create it.
>
> The license of the sequencing software does matter. If the sequencing
> software is non-free, then the WAV files build-depend on a non-free
> component. It is the same as if you used a non-free compiler to
> create an executable. If the soundfonts are GPL compatible, that
> would put the WAV's in contrib.
>
> Cheers,
> Walter Landry
> wlandry@ucsd.edu
>
Although I would agree with that, the main matter here is not whether
this WAV file would be appropriate for main or contrib, but whether it
is distributable at all, since the GPLv2 requires complete source code,
which includes "the scripts used to control compilation and installation
of the executable".
Regards,
Thadeu Cascardo.
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