Hello legal team, I am trying to update the Tuxguitar package from version 1.2 to 1.5.6.
The new version includes the soundfont "Magic Sound Font v2.0". While Tuxguitar is licensed under LGPL-2.1+, the license of the soundfont file (MagicSFver2.sf2) is not 100% clear. The issue was discussed in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819332 https://sourceforge.net/p/tuxguitar/support-requests/13/ In the SF ticket, the Tuxguitar author states that the author of the soundfont, Dennis, "allowed us redistribute the soundfont with tuxguitar". I tried to email Dennis to ask about the license of the soundfont, but did not receive a reply. The soundfont file can also be downloaded as "free soundfont" in the "Community Audio" collection on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/opensource_audio?query=free-soundfonts-sf2-2019-04 https://archive.org/download/free-soundfonts-sf2-2019-04/MagicSFver2.sf2 There are already a few other sf2 soundfonts in Debian. sf2 files can be edited with open source soundfont editors like Polyphone, so the format should not be a problem. Do you think it is possible to add the file MagicSFver2.sf2 to the Debian package, maybe under LGPL-2.1+, like the Tuxguitar sources? Or maybe as "public domain"? Regards, Helmar.
