In message <4ab53f73.1080...@webdrake.net>, Joseph Wakeling
<joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net> writes
Anthony W. Youngman wrote:
Aarrgghh.
The snippets are not public domain, unless the author put them there.
The *music* may be public domain, but the *arrangement* is copyright
whoever wrote the lilypond code (unless you make the argument that the
snippet is too small to qualify for copyright).
The snippets are taken from the LSR and a condition of submission to the
LSR is that you consign your work to the public domain (and that you
have the right to do so). I know, because I submitted a couple of
snippets to the LSR and they later made it into the Lilypond docs'
selection of snippets.
What happens if you're German :-)
(I don't know, but there's been a fair bit of discussion, on and off, on
debian legal as to whether it is even *possible* for some people to
consign their work to the public domain - the *law* apparently says they
*can't*)
Cheers,
Wol
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Anthony W. Youngman - anth...@thewolery.demon.co.uk
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