Hi, I figured that now I am an LSR editor, I had to learn about what legal responsibility I have when accepting contributions.
The LSR is advertised as being released under the public domain. This is supposed to work in conjunction with LilyPond contributors making modifications in snippets/new/ thanks to this bit of text in LICENSE.DOCUMENTATION: """ Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify the documentation for GNU LilyPond under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 1.3, or (at your option) any later version; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is contained in the file COPYING.FDL. The following exceptions apply: * It does not apply to input files (contained in the directory tree Documentation/snippets/); these are in the public domain. [...] """ So far, so good. However, take this snippet: https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=102 It begins with 300 lines of code that used to be in the LilyPond repository, released under the GPL, before they were considered legacy and moved to a snippet. I am pretty sure this violates the GPL. 300 lines looks too much for fair use law to apply, doesn't it? Something similar although less extreme is done in this snippet: https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=763 What should we do about these snippets? Delete them? Introduce an exception "snippets are in the public domain unless stated otherwise" and add headers to them stating they are under the GPL? Thanks, Jean
