Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Package name : freepats
Version : 20040611
Upstream Author : Various (freepats.opensrc.org)
URL : http://freepats.opensrc.org/
License : GPL with extra rights granted
Description : Free patch set for MIDI audio synthesis
Freepats is a free patchset suitable for MIDI audio synthesis. It is not
complete, nor comprehensive yet, and most, if not all patches are in the
old and limited GUS patch format.
It is, however, the sole DFSG-compliant patch set in existence so far.
New patches (including those in better formats, such as SF2 SoundFont banks)
are welcome.
The modified GPL has this extra clause:
As a special exception, if you create a composition which uses
these patches, and mix these patches or unaltered portions of
these patches into the composition, these patches do not by
themselves cause the resulting composition to be covered by the
GNU General Public License. This exception does not however
invalidate any other reasons why the document might be covered
by the GNU General Public License. If you modify these patches,
you may extend this exception to your version of the patches,
but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so,
delete this exception statement from your version.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
