-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 02:05:58PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 09:51:11AM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: > > Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > IMHO, the license of the sequencing software you used is completely > > > irrelevant. You USE a toolchain when you create with it, you don't > > > DERIVE from it (the exception being things like libraries -- or > > > soundfonts -- that get incorporated into the resulting work). > > > > > > So, the soundfont license needs to be very permissive, but I don't think > > > there should be any concern about the tool used to create it. > > > > The license of the sequencing software does matter. If the sequencing > > software is non-free, then the WAV files build-depend on a non-free > > component. It is the same as if you used a non-free compiler to > > create an executable. If the soundfonts are GPL compatible, that > > would put the WAV's in contrib. > > > > Cheers, > > Walter Landry > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Although I would agree with that, the main matter here is not whether > this WAV file would be appropriate for main or contrib, but whether it > is distributable at all, since the GPLv2 requires complete source code, > which includes "the scripts used to control compilation and installation > of the executable". > > Regards, > Thadeu Cascardo. > >
In that case then I believe that the WAV would be undistributable, since the program used to create/compile it (Depending upon how you look at it) is undistributable under the GPL. So would that throw the WAV file in non-free? - -- http://digital-haze.net/~pobega/ - My Website If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs. - Richard Stallman -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGZGrpg6qL2BGnx4QRApgZAKCWm45mP6TpbNSjINGPd6ILQGfOWQCeMi6D OhcA9WgZELU4/4Kr9FDD5SM= =r6St -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]