Re: License of code posted to this list

2015-05-09 Thread Urs Liska
Am 9. Mai 2015 22:55:32 MESZ, schrieb David Bellows davebell...@gmail.com: Sorry about not contacting you sooner! It's perfectly OK! I'm sure I'm just way over-thinking the issue! I'm more than happy to let you use the auto-ottava code for your project. By posting it on this forum I make it

Re: License of code posted to this list

2015-05-09 Thread Urs Liska
Am 09.05.2015 um 23:06 schrieb David Bellows: I'm not sure so this maybe wrong. But AFAIK copyright for content posted to the list is by default with the author and has no license by itself. So I think you can't assume it's PD. This sounds correct as well. Does just making the code available

Re: License of code posted to this list

2015-05-09 Thread Urs Liska
Am 10.05.2015 um 00:00 schrieb David Bellows: Basically, if you want to be legal and you want to use some code you saw on the list, you need to get the author's permission. Hopefully, he put that permission in the post, otherwise you need to contact him. That said, the chances of anyone

License of code posted to this list

2015-05-09 Thread David Bellows
Hello all, I have a big coding project that generates Lilypond files to be processed by Lilypond in an external process. My software is GPL. I make use of a couple of scripts that were produced on this list but have not been uploaded to the LSR. They are significant enough that I would consider

Re: License of code posted to this list

2015-05-09 Thread David Bellows
Sorry about not contacting you sooner! It's perfectly OK! I'm sure I'm just way over-thinking the issue! I'm more than happy to let you use the auto-ottava code for your project. By posting it on this forum I make it available to anybody who sees utility in it. I think that probably

Re: License of code posted to this list

2015-05-09 Thread David Nalesnik
On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Am 09.05.2015 um 23:06 schrieb David Bellows: I'm not sure so this maybe wrong. But AFAIK copyright for content posted to the list is by default with the author and has no license by itself. So I think you can't assume

Re: License of code posted to this list

2015-05-09 Thread David Nalesnik
Hi David. On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 3:17 PM, David Bellows davebell...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I have a big coding project that generates Lilypond files to be processed by Lilypond in an external process. My software is GPL. I make use of a couple of scripts that were produced on this list

Re: License of code posted to this list

2015-05-09 Thread Anthonys Lists
On 09/05/2015 22:06, David Bellows wrote: I'm not sure so this maybe wrong. But AFAIK copyright for content posted to the list is by default with the author and has no license by itself. So I think you can't assume it's PD. This sounds correct as well. Does just making the code available to

Re: License of code posted to this list

2015-05-09 Thread David Bellows
Yes. I'm happy to license this under the GPL. In that case if you could add the following notice (substituting your name, etc) to the top of the attached auto-ottava file then I think we'd have it: one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does. Copyright (C) year

Re: License of code posted to this list

2015-05-09 Thread David Bellows
I'm not sure so this maybe wrong. But AFAIK copyright for content posted to the list is by default with the author and has no license by itself. So I think you can't assume it's PD. This sounds correct as well. Does just making the code available to the world in a public manner imply

Re: License of code posted to this list

2015-05-09 Thread David Bellows
Basically, if you want to be legal and you want to use some code you saw on the list, you need to get the author's permission. Hopefully, he put that permission in the post, otherwise you need to contact him. That said, the chances of anyone complaining are minimal, and in most