Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-26 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de wrote: Hi Janek, better don't talk too much about these things. ok. I got too excited - sorry. Janek ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-26 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Jeff Barnes jbarnesweb If the use of the fonts were covered by LilyPond's license, that would pretty much kill using LilyPond for anything at a publishing house, wouldn't it? There's something called font exception which says that having LilyPond's font in the

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-25 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 2:07 AM, Thomas Morley thomasmorle...@googlemail.com wrote: This is a long discussion. We had similar ones in the past. That's useless. I followed the development of 2.15. in every detail, that I understood and I want to say that due to David's engagement and skill-ranks

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-25 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Janek, better don't talk too much about these things. They give me an attention I don't deserve yet. OK, I have plans to 'tweak' several projects to be explicit promotion for LilyPond. OK, I'm determined to do some heavy lobbying in an area that _could_ result in a significant boost of

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-25 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2012-05-25 um 02:07 schrieb Thomas Morley: This is a long discussion. We had similar ones in the past. That's useless. I followed the development of 2.15. in every detail, that I understood and I want to say that due to David's engagement and skill-ranks LilyPond has improved in a way

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-25 Thread Jeff Barnes
David Kastrup wrote: Jeff Barnes jbarnes...@yahoo.com writes: I don't think that's necessarily applicable to Lily. The end product being distributed is paper (or perhaps a pdf file). I don't think the GPL extends to that, does it? Of course copyright extends to paper, but not to

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-25 Thread David Kastrup
Jeff Barnes jbarnes...@yahoo.com writes: David Kastrup wrote: Jeff Barnes jbarnes...@yahoo.com writes: But most forward thinking publishing companies Forward thinking? Are we talking about the music publishing industry? would give the source code back. After all, their core business

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-25 Thread Hannes Kuhnert
David Kastrup schrieb: The talk in Chemnitz was disturbing in that respect. I was rather straight about the need to finance my further contribution to LilyPond, and there was no shortage of listeners coming to me after the talk, letting some LilyPond problem getting solved by me (so it was

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-25 Thread Hannes Kuhnert
David Kastrup schrieb: The talk in Chemnitz was disturbing in that respect. I was rather straight about the need to finance my further contribution to LilyPond, and there was no shortage of listeners coming to me after the talk, letting some LilyPond problem getting solved by me (so it was

Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz (was: Slides from LilyPond talk at Chemnitzer Linuxtage are up)

2012-05-24 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes: For those who are interested in my talk about LilyPond at the recent event in Chemnitz, the slides are at URL:http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2012/vortraege/900. Since my talks tend to do more than just reading off the slides, the impression may be rather

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread David Kastrup
Jonas Olson jol...@kth.se writes: tor 2012-05-24 klockan 11:28 +0200 skrev David Kastrup: I mention funding problems for my work at the end of the talk. It turns out that this month has dropped so far in one-time monetary contributions compared to the rather slow uptake of regular

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:17 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Jonas Olson jol...@kth.se writes: When donating, is there any mechanism in place by which funds will be donated only if some target level is reached by all donations together?  I'm speculating people might be more comfortable

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:17 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Jonas Olson jol...@kth.se writes: When donating, is there any mechanism in place by which funds will be donated only if some target level is reached by all donations together?  

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread Jonas Olson
Some messages seem to drop out and never reach me, but I understand the following was written by David Kastrup: You propose a system with a guarantee that I will not get any payment at all unless a minimum is met, meaning that I have to finance the whole month on my own. This is not exactly

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi Jonas, On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Jonas Olson jol...@kth.se wrote: Some messages seem to drop out and never reach me, but I understand the following was written by David Kastrup: You propose a system with a guarantee that I will not get any payment at all unless a minimum is met,

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Jeff Barnes jbarnes...@yahoo.com wrote: Wouldn't your time be more wisely spent trying to get corporate sponsors? I see a lot more success stories in the open source world where a corporation donates developers to projects the company have an interest in. As

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread Tim Roberts
Janek Warchoł wrote: Unfortunately, that's not going to happen soon. Even small, local publishers (i've asked some not long ago) are not interested in anything else than Finale/Sibelius. I predict that it will take 3-5 years before any major publisher begins using LilyPond, let alone

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Tim Roberts t...@probo.com wrote: Janek Warchoł wrote: Unfortunately, that's not going to happen soon.  Even small, local publishers (i've asked some not long ago) are not interested in anything else than Finale/Sibelius.  I predict that it will take 3-5 years

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread Jeff Barnes
regards, Jeff - Original Message - From: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org To: Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:53 PM Subject: Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread David Kastrup
Let me first tell you that a _separate_ and unannounced mail copy of something _also_ sent to a mailing list is considered quite rude since it more often than not forces the recipient to answer the same mail twice. I'll not repeat the points I made in private communication, but for the sake of

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread David Kastrup
Jonas Olson jol...@kth.se writes: Some messages seem to drop out and never reach me, but I understand the following was written by David Kastrup: You propose a system with a guarantee that I will not get any payment at all unless a minimum is met, meaning that I have to finance the whole

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread David Kastrup
Tim Roberts t...@probo.com writes: Janek Warchoł wrote: Unfortunately, that's not going to happen soon. Even small, local publishers (i've asked some not long ago) are not interested in anything else than Finale/Sibelius. I predict that it will take 3-5 years before any major publisher

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread Jeff Barnes
Let me first tell you that a _separate_ and unannounced mail copy of something _also_ sent to a mailing list is considered quite rude since it more often than not forces the recipient to answer the same mail twice. Point taken. Won't happen again. Please read

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread David Kastrup
Jeff Barnes jbarnes...@yahoo.com writes: Let me first tell you that a _separate_ and unannounced mail copy of something _also_ sent to a mailing list is considered quite rude since it more often than not forces the recipient to answer the same mail twice. Point taken. Won't happen again.

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 9:37 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Jeff Barnes jbarnes...@yahoo.com writes: Just curious. If there wasn't a free as in beer version of a GPL software package, wouldn't one logically expect a fork? How does GNU address that? You can't fork what has not been

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 9:37 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Jeff Barnes jbarnes...@yahoo.com writes: Just curious. If there wasn't a free as in beer version of a GPL software package, wouldn't one logically expect a fork? How does GNU

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread Jeff Barnes
I suppose the situation might be as follows: source code is freely available (on website, github or whatever), but the binaries are not. Anyone tech-savvy enough to serve himself doesn't have to pay, but simple users do have.  I think that if the price was low (say, 5$) nobody might be

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread Mogens Lemvig Hansen
On 2012-05-24, at 12:56 PM, Jeff Barnes jbarnes...@yahoo.com wrote: And actually, releasing source for free but binaries for fee makes some sense. Agreed. Especially on platforms where build environments aren't free But if I had to pay to update from 2.14 to 2.16, I just wouldn't,

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 24, 2012, at 1:46 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Let me first tell you that a _separate_ and unannounced mail copy of something _also_ sent to a mailing list is considered quite rude since it more often than not forces the recipient to answer the same mail twice. This in unfortunately more

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread Tim McNamara
On May 24, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Jeff Barnes wrote: Wouldn't your time be more wisely spent trying to get corporate sponsors? I see a lot more success stories in the open source world where a corporation donates developers to projects the company have an interest in. Hmm. OpenOffice for

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread Jeff Barnes
Tim McNamara wrote; On May 24, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Jeff Barnes wrote:   Wouldn't your time be more wisely spent trying to get corporate sponsors? I  see a lot more success stories in the open source world where a corporation donates developers to projects the company have an interest in.

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread Thomas Morley
This is a long discussion. We had similar ones in the past. That's useless. I followed the development of 2.15. in every detail, that I understood and I want to say that due to David's engagement and skill-ranks LilyPond has improved in a way that I hardly can believe. If David isn't payed for

Re: Video recording of LilyPond talk at Chemnitz

2012-05-24 Thread David Kastrup
Mogens Lemvig Hansen mog...@kayju.com writes: Just some thoughts, sadly no solution. Why don't we find some billionaire who can just hire David to do what David does best? You'll find that billionaires tend to be a bit hard to approach since there are millions of people with ideas that they