On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 11:08 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 21:15:03 +0100 > > "Toby Smithe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 8:41 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 18:57:49 +0100 > > > "Toby Smithe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 2:30 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > What license must a soundfont be under to make it possible for > > > > > you to integrate it? > > > > > > > > Any free distribution licence is fine. For instance, I > > > > recommended the Fluid SoundFont be MIT licensed, mainly because > > > > it was closest to what the upstream had envisaged as "Public > > > > Domain, but please include a copyright notice". > > > > > > > GPL would probably also be an option. > > > It's inconvenient that the cc licenses are not approved by debian, > > > the possibility to choose some terms would have been nice. > > > I guess a cc licensed soundfont couldn't get included? > > > > GPL is certainly an option. I only suggested MIT as that's the one > > that has been used before :-) > > > > I'm not sure about the status of CC licences; I'm sure they're free > > enough to be included, though how Debian's stance is and affects us is > > unclear. If you're really keen, you could e-mail debian-legal and ask. > > > > Thanks Toby, > it would be nice to use a license that complies to debian, because if > it's ok for them, it's probably ok for everyone else. > I just don't know if we can use such a license. > > I won't contact debian-legal, I just don't like that kind of stuff..
I do agree you should contact debian-legal. It would be great if then you told us what they think, so we can have it for reference for the people having the same doubt in the future. Luis de Bethencourt > > Thanks for advice, > Philipp > > > > -- > Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list > Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel > -- Luis de Bethencourt Guimerá luisbg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG: B0ED1326 -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
