Hi,
As mentioned by others, it would be good to coordinate such a effort with
other people, including other free software projects even.
Happy to discuss it more in details on IRC #musescore on freenode.net, here
on the mailing list or on the forum.
About the license, I assume we are currently talking about the samples and
not necessarily their organisation as a SFZ or SF2 for now.
CC-BY is compatible with GPL but I'm not sure it's the best license for a
sample library. If we imagine that CC-BY samples are used for the rendition
of a score, I believe (please correct me if you think I'm wrong) that the
creator of the MP3 would have to attribute the creator of the samples. It's
nice but it's not convenient. With the current default setup of MuseScore
(GPLv2+fontexception[1]+MIT FluidMono soundfont), one can create a score in
PDF or audio form without any license restriction at all, including the
right to not attribute MuseScore. It would be great if it could stay the
same.
CC0 is the best choice if we don't want to limit the usage of the samples.
The OSI disapproval and patent exception[2] mentioned on MuseScore forum on
another topic[3] doesn't apply here.
lasconic
[1]
https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/blob/4f8a845d8b2c0059d7055eeff7375405f42702a5/LICENSE.GPL#L9
[2] https://opensource.org/minutes20120307
[3] https://musescore.org/en/node/104186
2016-08-14 14:20 GMT+02:00 ChurchOrganist <[email protected]
>:
> I am about to embark on a project to provide the Open Source community with
> suitably licensed quality sample sets, which are currently the main bugbear
> to producing soundfonts or SFZ's for OS music applications.
>
> The Licence type is of vital importance to ensuring that these sample sets
> are available to use in any FOSS music application.
>
> The MIT makes sense for applications and other computer programmes, but its
> wording isn't a good fit for sample sets or other media which aren't
> "code".
>
> As far as I can see the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
> Licence (CC-BY-4.0) fulfils this role, but I want to consult the considered
> opinion of the MuseScore developers before I make a commitment to this
> licence which will not easily be revoked.
>
>
>
> -----
> Regards
> Michael
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