Re: GPL vs. LGPL

2010-11-26 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 26 November 2010 16:02, David Kastrup wrote: > > Just read http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html>: It is not that easy (see below). On 26 November 2010 16:05, Valentin Villenave wrote: > > However, as James pointed out, the Apple AppStore® is (deliberately) > incompatible with the

Re: GPL vs. LGPL

2010-11-26 Thread Nick Payne
On 26/11/10 13:23, Feifan Zhou wrote: 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 po

Re: GPL vs. LGPL

2010-11-26 Thread Mike Blackstock
Why not have a look at www.omet.ca and then send me a note? Sounds like omet has the beginnings or 'proof-of-concept' of what you are trying to do - the dojo toolkit has tons of stuff that can be used for this type of app. -M On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Feifan Zhou wrote: > What was the rea

RE: Multi-page markup: programming error

2010-11-26 Thread James Lowe
forwarding to group list.. --- Dear James, I upgraded to 2.13.40 version and followed your instructions: Lilypond gave out some errors, but the output was just fine. I'm trying now to adjust it to my own file, I am almost sure it will work. Thank you so much, this is going to solve my problem,

Re: GPL vs. LGPL

2010-11-26 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
> 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 > quali

Re: GPL vs. LGPL

2010-11-26 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 3:34 PM, craigbakalian wrote: > Why don't you make your app free?  What is the point of charging money > for anything, especially in the USA where money is taking on a whole new > meaning? Could we please stop mixing up "commercial" and "proprietary" software? Releasing a

Re: GPL vs. LGPL

2010-11-26 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: > "James Lowe" writes: > >> he mentioned iPad and so I assume he is (obliquely) referring to this kind >> of thing: >> >> http://www.fsf.org/news/2010-05-app-store-compliance >> >> (there is another link within that thread that covers GPL not >> compatible with App Store)

subsections of a book

2010-11-26 Thread Jiri Zurek (Prague)
Is it possible to create an additional, third level structure element of the book? According to the manual, there is the top level \book, the second level is the \bookpart and then, it is the \score directly. However, I would need a third level which would be subsection of the \bookpart. Is this

Re: GPL vs. LGPL

2010-11-26 Thread David Kastrup
"James Lowe" writes: > he mentioned iPad and so I assume he is (obliquely) referring to this kind of > thing: > > http://www.fsf.org/news/2010-05-app-store-compliance > > (there is another link within that thread that covers GPL not > compatible with App Store) > > I don't pretend to understand

RE: GPL vs. LGPL

2010-11-26 Thread James Lowe
Hello, -Original Message- From: lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org on behalf of David Kastrup Sent: Fri 11/26/2010 13:15 To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: GPL vs. LGPL Feifan Zhou writes: > What was the reason for releasing Lilypond under the GPL rather than >

RE: Multi-page markup: programming error

2010-11-26 Thread James Lowe
Hello, -Original Message- From: lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore@gnu.org on behalf of Jayaratna Sent: Sun 11/21/2010 13:01 To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Multi-page markup: programming error Dear members, this seems to be something that has not been discussed yet. I

Re: GPL vs. LGPL

2010-11-26 Thread craigbakalian
Hi Feifan, Why don't you make your app free? What is the point of charging money for anything, especially in the USA where money is taking on a whole new meaning? Craig Bakalian On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 08:05 -0500, lilypond-user-requ...@gnu.org wrote: > From: Feifan Zhou > Subject: GPL vs. LGPL

Re: TabStaff feature requests

2010-11-26 Thread Steve Yegge
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Jan Warchoł < lemniskata.bernoulli...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/11/25 Steve Yegge > >> I bit the bullet and went through all 100-odd guitar music publications >> I've >> collected over the years, from publishers around the world on every >> continent, >> across mul

Re: GPL vs. LGPL

2010-11-26 Thread David Kastrup
Feifan Zhou writes: > What was the reason for releasing Lilypond under the GPL rather than > the LGPL? Because it is not a library? Have you _read_ the terms of the LGPL? They don't make much sense for the Lilypond code base and don't actually offer anything more than the GPL (other than compli

GPL vs. LGPL

2010-11-26 Thread Feifan Zhou
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 communi

Re: TabStaff feature requests

2010-11-26 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Freitag, 26. November 2010, um 11:08:36 schrieb Phil Holmes: > +1. I use a lot of choral scores, and I don't believe I've ever seen the > correct clef for tenors, which is a treble clef and octave down. Looking at my large collection of vocal scores, it appears that while most older scores

Re: TabStaff feature requests

2010-11-26 Thread Phil Holmes
+1. I use a lot of choral scores, and I don't believe I've ever seen the correct clef for tenors, which is a treble clef and octave down. I insist on using it, because it's right. Reckon the old typesetters didn't have the correct symbol and so simply didn't bother. -- Phil Holmes -