What was the reason for releasing Lilypond under the GPL rather than the LGPL? In keeping with Lilypond's philosopy of providing beautiful sheet music to everyone, I would believe that the LGPL would have been a better choice.
But I'm not here to argue my point; it would be me against the community and would not be a very pleasant debate. Rather, I have a little problem. I'm trying to build what will really be the first true sheet music app for the iPad. As a pianist, I hate having to sort through huge binders, websites, and thick anthologies to find my music, and the iPad's large screen would allow me to house a veritable digital library of music. I would also like to allow for the creation and/or editing of sheet music. To provide a quality rendering experience, I would like to be able to include a music rendering engine that can render beautiful anti-aliased sheet music on screen whenever possible, in addition to displaying PDF scans as found on websites such as IMSLP. My problem is that I have fallen in love with Lilypond. Its simplicity and the beauty of its output is quite stunning, and I believe it would look amazing on the iPad and make sheet music more readily available. I have plans for a public, open sheet music library that users can contribute to. However, the GPLv3 does not allow me to use Lilypond in a commercial application. So, I'm asking for advice. Considering the license over Lilypond, which I have no intention of breaking, what should I do about my conundrum? Are there alternatives that produce output of the same quality that I should consider? Thank you in advance! _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
