On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 1:00 PM Jean Abou Samra <j...@abou-samra.fr> wrote:
> Le 20/10/2022 à 15:46, Luca Fascione a écrit : > > To be clear: the potential issue I see is when the score or some of > > the headers it includes are GPL licensed, of course. > > Now of course the boundary between 'score' and 'lilypond plugin' in > > our case is particularly blurry, but still, it seems the > > question is germane to the discussion at hand. > > IMHO, such an interpretation by a court is unlikely. The truth, > as with a number of legal things, is that we will never know for > sure, because (with probability close to 1) no court will ever have > to settle such a case. > Well, the TeX people say that if the style file is GPL, the entire document is GPL, look: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/2735/gpl-licensed-latex-template-implications-for-resulting-work So I think this constitutes evidence that actually that interpretation is the accepted one. As to whether this will be in court, I agree this is not too likely. All the same, if it did happen, I would not want to be a cause for well-meaning folks to be dragged into displeasing circumstances. I feel it was absolutely brilliant how Jan resolved the issue, showing that getting new permissions may actually not be that hard in practice and after all. Luca -- Luca Fascione
