Re: timgm6mb-soundfont

[Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org>]

Fabian Greffrath dixit:

>Am Freitag, den 02.08.2019, 21:46 +0000 schrieb Thorsten Glaser:
>> >Do you wish to adapt that? I can commit how I imagine that to
>> >work, if you want.
>
>I am not exactly sure I understand what you mean here? You want to
>embed licensing information in the soundfont file itself?

Yes, exactly. (With the eventual idea of copying this kind of
metadata somehow into the generated waveform; some licences
virtually require this (e.g. Fluid/musescore-general-soundfont’s
MIT) and others who contributed under CC0 still would appreciate
it if their contribution shows up on for example searches over
MP3 tags.

>> http://timbrechbill.com/saxguru/Timidity.php is the closest
>> fit I could find. Perhaps ask Tim? The version downloadable
>> from there is also 24K larger, perhaps a bugfix?
>
>Okay, we should probably replace the Homepage field with this link.
>Also, I don't see any way to address the author there except for a
>dubious guestbook. Wow, this is really very late-90s over there... ;)

☻

>Regarding the file size, I guess the file we have in the Debian package
>comes from the musescore sources, right? Did they have somewhere
>documented where they got their copy from?

commit 90c33ef9d87b3f5ff92efd3b07d89eb455fb1fef
Author: dbolton <dbolton@users.noreply.github.com>
Date:   Sun Aug 22 19:45:09 2010 +0000

    Fix SoundFont (missing E in Alto Sax)

 mscore/ChangeLog                |   2 ++
 mscore/share/sound/TimGM6mb.sf2 | Bin 5994284 -> 5969788 bytes
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)


The file before this commit matches what I find upstream,
the file after matches the one in the Debian package.

We should add David Bolton <davidkbolton@gmail.com> to debian/copyright as well.


>> From https://musescore.org/en/node/1463#comment-9168
>> apparently. (I’m a bit wary about blanket PD statements,
>> but…)
>
>We should probably document this quote in debian/copyright.

Yes.

And if you then format debian/copyright the way I did in
fluid/musescore, non-DEP, with a Licence:\n\n before the
part that ends up in the SF2 file, it’ll be easy to do t̲h̲a̲t̲.

Thanks,
//mirabilos
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23:39⎜<symons:#cvs> this worked, thank you very much 16:26⎜<schweizer:#cvs> ok