On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:19 AM, tim hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please don't take my remarks personally, these are real questions. We've > been campaigning / waiting for a suitable soundfont candidate for > something like 5 years (CMIIW). FluidR3 is the obvious candidate, it is > pretty ancient and I wouldn't be at all surprised if Frank Wen has not > kept records of all sample sources.
As I said, I will check with Frank about it. However, as you say, it is likely he has not. > I fully realise that the font has to be sufficiently free from the > 'tentacles of evil' that users could edit it in Swami and use it as a > basis for new distributable fonts and also use it in their compositions > without fear of retribution. This font has been out in the wild for > enough years, surely? OK, I know, assume nothing. So realistically, how > should we approach this? What real chance is there of getting it into > lenny / Hardy? The chance to get it into Hardy is real. Please see the FeatureFreeze Exception bug at [0]. > There are a couple of side issues here relating to recognition of > mimetypes. Nautilus thinks that SF2 files are video/x-msvideo, causing > it to wrongly assume they are some form of AVI and associate with Movie > players rather than Swami / FluidSynth; and SFARK files as > application/x-extension-sfArk or application/octet-stream (i.e. > unknown/unsupported). I know how to deal with this as a user, it just > would be good to set some reasonable defaults. These can be fixed; let's concentrate on getting the package in. > Toby, this is fantastic work. Thank you. I'm as glad as you are :) > I suggest that the package should be distributed by debian-multimedia / > UbuntuStudio / 64 Studio initially to test the waters and someone > sensible raise at least an ITP so that any license violations can be > properly tracked using the BTS. The ITP is filed at [1]. As an Ubuntu Studio dev, I can say we are keen to see this in the repositories, though we may not distribute it on disc as it is so large. > Please, please, please let's walk the extra mile for this package. How > can I help? I'm not a DD either. Are we ever going to be able to > distribute soundfonts? If not now, when? We will, and we will start here. Toby [0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/193496 [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=466612 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
