Am 10.08.2013 10:52, schrieb Andrew Bernard:
Interesting valid points David.
But I was thinking that it although lilypond is open source, why can't
I purchase _commercial_ music fonts to use with it, just as one does
for print typesetting? I did not see the fonts as being tied to buying
the engraving software, but a decoupled market. I can see music system
vendors selling fonts just like Adobe does.
And why can't future Steinberg users incorporate lilypond fonts? After
all, lilypond is open source and we are encouraging people to have it
for free, work with it, extend it and nurture it. Or are the open
source licensing restrictions that prevent lilypond components such as
fonts being utilised by commercial software (I don't know)? And I
think you can download Steinberg Bravura font presently for free,
although I understand this is principally as a reference font
implementation for SMuFL.
Andrew
On 10/08/13 6:30 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
Do you really think that proprietary music system vendors will
release their fonts in a usable form under free licenses so that
people can forego buying their software and use LilyPond instead?
Of course this is all quite complex and difficult.
One thought:
Of course you can buy commercial fonts and use them with LaTeX.
But the free TeX distros won't for example packages that are "macros
supporting non-free fonts".
Although I personally would like to have the option to use proprietary
fonts with LilyPond.
Urs
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