That's similar to what we do with the Fried songs: we include the sources in
all perks starting from a certain price.
Urs
David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> schrieb am 25.03.2014:
>Paul Tannous <ptann...@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>> Shane:
>>> it would be more sensible to sell the .ly file at a higher cost. It
>>> is certainly the more valuable entity, both in terms of work in and
>>> future utility.
>>>
>> After considering your comments, I and my team believe that we should
>> offer the .ly files as the primary premiums to Kickstarter
>> contributors.
>
>I'm not sure what "primary premiums are".
>
>> After all, anyone wanting to contribute to this initiative would most
>> likely have an interest in LilyPond sources in general and in the
>> LilyPond sources that we will be producing in particular.
>
>Well, the principal motivation of those supporting the "free" angle
>will
>likely be inpired by the free software movement, based on the four
>software freedoms:
>
> Freedom 0: The freedom to run the program for any purpose.
>
> Freedom 1: The freedom to study how the program works, and change it
> to make it do what you wish.
>
>Freedom 2: The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your
>neighbor.
>
> Freedom 3: The freedom to improve the program, and release your
> improvements (and modified versions in general) to the
> public, so that the whole community benefits.
>
>It's pretty obvious that freedom 1 and freedom 3, when applied to a
>score rather than software, would best benefit from the availability of
>the .ly file. Make no mistake: I have seen impressive "arrangements"
>made by xerox and scissors (I remember some Brandenburg concerto
>rearrangement for strings, with flaps from orchestra voices pasted into
>another voice, and with "transpositions" and range adaptations by
>drawing in other clefs and additional staff lines while striking out
>others). But that's peanuts to what one can reasonably well do using
>LilyPond.
>
>The spirit of the GPL is that you can ask whatever you want for a
>program, but you get the right to distribute it and the corresponding
>sources for it in the bargain.
>
>So I think it would be a nice fit if the .ly file was included in any
>offering, making the people feel they are actually doing something for
>a
>freely available score as source material.
>
>As for perks: many people will consider it quite an effort actually
>doing anything with the .ly file, so you could offer custom
>transpositions or paper formats (of course, sans tweaking) in PDF form
>as perks. That's nothing that someone willing to learn LilyPond would
>not be able to do himself, but it might be a nice motivation for those
>who are in it for the paper score.
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