On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 11:29:28AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: >> Do we know about http://tunefl.com ? >> >> Also, should we be mentioning commercial services like scorio.com >> on our website? > > Commercial services are ok, but non-Free software is not. The GNU > coding standards are quite clear on this: > > "A GNU program should not recommend, promote, or grant legitimacy > to the use of any non-free program. Proprietary software is a > social and ethical problem, and our aim is to put an end to that > problem." > http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/References.html > > > This is a bit of a shame, since it's nice "advertising" to show > how lilypond is used, but I didn't make up the rules, and it's > entirely consistent with GNU's position.
neither scorio nor tunefl are considered non-free programs, so they should be OK. FSF's beef is with restrictive licensing, since licensing means you cannot freely copy the software ("share with your neighbors"). -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - han...@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user