[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I bought a copy of Finale about 7 years ago. Because I bought > it, they gave me a license to download and read the documentation > for ETF format, which I did. IIRC, you actually needed to put > in a password on their web site in order to access the docs. > I e-mailed them to ask if they thought it was legal for me to > show the docs to other people, and they never replied. I don't > remember whether there was a EULA. > > I never intend to use Finale again, so if there's a lilypond > developer who's interested in working more on the ETF-ly > converter, I'd be happy to donate my copy of Finale, which > would then presumably make it legal for that person to use > the ETF docs. (Well, at least that's my interpretation under > the doctrine of first sale in U.S. copyright law, but IANAL, > and I guess most of the lilypond developers are in Europe. > I also haven't looked carefully to see if they're claiming > it's a trade secret or something.) The ETF documentation was > actually quite complete and well written.
this would not perchance be the same as http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen/lily-devel/etfspec.pdf ? -- Han-Wen Nienhuys | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
