-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 26. November 2008 schrieb Martin Tarenskeen: > So let's not drop MusicXML support, even we don't like the legal issues > around it.
Okay, sorry if I confused you with legal arguments. I suppose, I have to clarify this: The MusicXML "specification" IS absolutely free to use, with no legal strings attached (they use the same license for the DTDs / XML Schemas than the W3C for the HTML spec). The only (non-legal) problem is that there is no proper suite of test files available. The sample files that Recordare provides are showcases to show off the potential of MusicXML and they are taken from Recordare's online shop of scores, so they don't want to make those files absolutely free. Some of the files are even provided directly from some living authors, so Recordare does not even have the authority to make those files absolutely free, since the contents are still protected by copyright law. However, our MusicXML testsuite for musicxml2ly, which I'm building, is supposed to become some sort of non-official complete suite of MusicXML test files, which are freely available. > I was always astonished about Dolets and Finales politics in that after a > time you had to > purchase the additional licence. But now I understand. The thing is that the MusicXML plugin and the specs are not created by the same company that produces Finale. Finale includes a free version of the Dolet, which suffices for most uses, though. Of course, Recordare, who make the MusicXML plugins for Finale and Sibelius also need to make money, so they want to sell their extended plugins, too. That's understandable and should not be held against them. They provide really great support for MusicXML questions, too. MusicXML is not perfect, of course, but it's the best and most-supported exchange format that is available, so it's definitely the way to go. Cheers, Reinhold - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhold Kainhofer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ * Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, TU Wien, http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/ * K Desktop Environment, http://www.kde.org, KOrganizer maintainer * Chorvereinigung "Jung-Wien", http://www.jung-wien.at/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJLSNGTqjEwhXvPN0RAvhXAJ4qD/5jRVENYqLZbXZV8UY3Xiz7IgCeKDLY co0+4+8tr3NVwHxPfeDSoSs= =c5Fw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user