On Aug 22, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Joseph Wakeling wrote: >> Why does anyone using LilyPond care about these blokes at all? > > Because even if they were requesting full copyright transfer, it's not a > good thing that they exclude composers on the basis of the software used. > >> (Why does anyone care about a concerts for six organs at all? I'm just a >> humble folk musician, but I know there are great organs around where you >> don't need six organists playing at once. I can't imagine there's any >> musical advantage of six small organs over a good, big one...) > > There are things you can do with twelve hands, that you can't with two > ... To be honest, musically speaking this looks like a fantastic > concept: the opportunity to write music for a very particular location > with very particular acoustic and sonic properties. >
+1 Any response back from them? I have a python patch in the wings itching to generate a six organ score. Perhaps the creation of a lilypond-advocacy list is in order? I would not mind at all spending 15 minutes a week writing letters to non-lilypond-friendly musical organizations trying to convince them to allow the software. Cheers, MS _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
