Re: The GPL and soundfonts
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On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 06:20:27PM -0300, cascardo@minaslivre.org wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 03:41:29PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
>
> No! Non-free is for distributable software. Non-distributable means you
> would infringe someone's copyright if you ever distributed the work.
> There are those software which are distributable (in the sense that, in
> some conditions, you could distribute it), but those conditions are not
> appropriate for distributing in Debian (even in non-free). For example,
> if Debian had to pay a fee for each copy made by a user.
>
> The solution here would be to ask the MIDI author to distribute it under
> another license.
>
> IANADD,
> Thadeu Cascardo.
>
>
Oh, wow, I can't believe I didn't notice that. I must not have been
thinking when I said non-free, sorry. And yeah, the best thing to do
here is to ask the original MIDI author to distribute it other another
license, otherwise I think you're stuck.
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