Hello, As the database of gregorio users is growing, I think we should care about license issues, and think about a gabc repository...
First, license issues: do anyone know under which license a gabc file can have? Or if you have the right to copy a score in a book? What I understood is the following: - old vatican scores are under the public domain (you can't photocopy it, but you can reproduce the scores with gregorio), maybe new ones are too - Solesmes own the copyright on their rythmic signs, so if you copy a Solesmes score with gregorio, you need to change at least one rythmic sign, for it to be different. - books before 1939 are in the public domain, so you can reproduce the scores. This seems a contradiction with the previous point, because most Solesmes Antiphonaries are mostly dates from 1934... But the second point may deal with very recent Solesmes Antiphonaries of Vatican II. Do you know other things? I think I'll try to contact Solesmes to ask them about their copyright... What do you think about a gabc repository? How do you think it would be organized? By book? What would be the copyright of the gabc files? I think the best thing would be to put the gabc files under public domain... if there can be a copyright on such small files... I think I'll add a license field to the gabc files. I think that on a repository we should also put a sample pdf, and some copyright explanations. I'm also thinking about making a paypal thing for donations, because traveling in abbeys without working does not bring so much money... Please tell me what you think about all that! -- Elie _______________________________________________ Gregorio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-devel
