Re: The GPL and soundfonts
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On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 02:05:58PM -0300, cascardo@minaslivre.org wrote:
> 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.
>
>
In that case then I believe that the WAV would be undistributable, since
the program used to create/compile it (Depending upon how you look at
it) is undistributable under the GPL. So would that throw the WAV file
in non-free?
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