Re: Question for a FLOSS licensing session

2016-11-02 Thread David Kastrup
Wols Lists writes: > On 02/11/16 15:14, David Kastrup wrote: > >> Wrong. Your duty is to license the whole work you distribute under the >> terms of the GPL, with due notices attached and the licensing obvious to >> the downstream recipient. If you fail to do so, you are in violation of >> the

Re: Question for a FLOSS licensing session

2016-11-02 Thread Wols Lists
On 02/11/16 15:14, David Kastrup wrote: > Wols Lists writes: > >> On 31/10/16 10:08, David Kastrup wrote: > The repository contains among others > - encoded music > - Scheme functions created for the project > - Scheme functions created using included code from LilyPond and GPLed

Re: Question for a FLOSS licensing session

2016-11-02 Thread David Kastrup
Wols Lists writes: > On 31/10/16 10:08, David Kastrup wrote: >>> > The repository contains among others >>> > - encoded music >>> > - Scheme functions created for the project >>> > - Scheme functions created using included code from LilyPond and GPLed >>> > openLilyLib >>> > - Scheme functions cr

Re: Question for a FLOSS licensing session

2016-11-02 Thread Wols Lists
On 31/10/16 09:04, Thomas Morley wrote: > 2016-10-31 9:48 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup : >> Thomas Morley writes: >> >>> When entering a new snippet first thing you read is: >>> >>> "Important: By entering your snippet, you are placing it in the public >>> domain. This includes also snippets taken from

Re: Question for a FLOSS licensing session

2016-11-02 Thread Wols Lists
On 31/10/16 10:08, David Kastrup wrote: >> > The repository contains among others >> > - encoded music >> > - Scheme functions created for the project >> > - Scheme functions created using included code from LilyPond and GPLed >> > openLilyLib >> > - Scheme functions created by modifying functions

Re: Question for a FLOSS licensing session

2016-11-01 Thread David Kastrup
Edward Ardzinski writes: > After reading these replies I may not be wiser...but it did occur to > me that there might be a flaw in my thinking as I do the "programming" > with Frescobaldi. Does that have an impact on any of these issues? > Would have been changed looking back to the "old days" w

Re: Question for a FLOSS licensing session

2016-11-01 Thread Edward Ardzinski
y own editor I wrote in Visual C++? -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Question-for-a-FLOSS-licensing-session-tp195867p195932.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailin

Re: Question for a FLOSS licensing session

2016-10-31 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > Am 31. Oktober 2016 01:43:26 GMT-07:00, schrieb David Kastrup : >>Carl Sorensen writes: >> >>> To make what I consider an apt analogy, using gcc doesn't require any >>> programs you create to be GPL'd. >> >>GCC has a special exception in the licensing exempting the startup >>

Re: Question for a FLOSS licensing session

2016-10-31 Thread Urs Liska
Am 31. Oktober 2016 01:43:26 GMT-07:00, schrieb David Kastrup : >Carl Sorensen writes: > >> To make what I consider an apt analogy, using gcc doesn't require any >> programs you create to be GPL'd. > >GCC has a special exception in the licensing exempting the startup >stubs >and other fixed mate

Re: Question for a FLOSS licensing session

2016-10-31 Thread Urs Liska
Am 31. Oktober 2016 01:41:54 GMT-07:00, schrieb Thomas Morley : >2016-10-31 3:39 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup : > >> And of course >> the _corresponding_ source code which will in general be under >control >> of the user. There are some considerations when LSR code and similar >> gets copied into do

Re: Question for a FLOSS licensing session

2016-10-31 Thread Thomas Morley
2016-10-31 9:48 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup : > Thomas Morley writes: > >> When entering a new snippet first thing you read is: >> >> "Important: By entering your snippet, you are placing it in the public >> domain. This includes also snippets taken from the Lilypond manual >> (the manual authors gran

Re: Question for a FLOSS licensing session

2016-10-31 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Morley writes: > When entering a new snippet first thing you read is: > > "Important: By entering your snippet, you are placing it in the public > domain. This includes also snippets taken from the Lilypond manual > (the manual authors grant you their permission to do so)." Is that a spec

Re: Question for a FLOSS licensing session

2016-10-31 Thread David Kastrup
Carl Sorensen writes: > To make what I consider an apt analogy, using gcc doesn't require any > programs you create to be GPL'd. GCC has a special exception in the licensing exempting the startup stubs and other fixed material it might place into the code from requiring licensing. The generated

Re: Question for a FLOSS licensing session

2016-10-31 Thread Thomas Morley
2016-10-31 3:39 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup : > And of course > the _corresponding_ source code which will in general be under control > of the user. There are some considerations when LSR code and similar > gets copied into documents: in that case, the source code of the > document might come under

Re: Question for a FLOSS licensing session

2016-10-30 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 10/30/16 5:40 AM, "Urs Liska" wrote: > > >Am 30.10.2016 um 20:26 schrieb Edward Ardzinski: >> Does this matter to the average user? Probably not. But some here use >>LP for more than I do. >> >> But I'm not sure why the programming should be separated from the >>output? > >Because that mi

Re: Question for a FLOSS licensing session

2016-10-30 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > Hi all, > > I'm right now at the GSoC mentors summit and already had a bunch of > interesting sessions. > > One specific one that is to come this afternoon is a Q&A session about > FLOSS licensing, done by a FSF lawyer. I want to take the opportunity to > raise a question that

Re: Question for a FLOSS licensing session

2016-10-30 Thread Urs Liska
Am 30.10.2016 um 20:26 schrieb Edward Ardzinski: > Does this matter to the average user? Probably not. But some here use LP > for more than I do. > > But I'm not sure why the programming should be separated from the output? Because that might lead to the situation that the license applying t

Re: Question for a FLOSS licensing session

2016-10-30 Thread Edward Ardzinski
Does this matter to the average user? Probably not. But some here use LP for more than I do. But I'm not sure why the programming should be separated from the output? From my perspective the programming IS the music, be it a PDF score or the MIDI files I use to make my MP3 demos. Certainly

Question for a FLOSS licensing session

2016-10-30 Thread Urs Liska
Hi all, I'm right now at the GSoC mentors summit and already had a bunch of interesting sessions. One specific one that is to come this afternoon is a Q&A session about FLOSS licensing, done by a FSF lawyer. I want to take the opportunity to raise a question that in some way or another pops up ar