Dear Grzegorz,
Gregorio the font seems to be a rather straightforward adaptation of the original Gregoria design.
When I started the gregorio software project, I needed a font that I could modify and build easily, so when I saw that Gregoria was not filling these needs, I created a new font, Gregorio, from scratch. The design is far from being as good as Gregoria (much more squary and far less fine-tuned).
Different implementation gives a clear legal status for the Gregorio font software, I suppose, but isn't a particular type design, as opposed to font software, also under copyright in France? Was this an issue? How it was dealt with?
I have to say I'm not sure I clearly understood what you say here... According to me, this is no issue, it's like when you make a Time or Garamond typeface: these designs exist for centuries, and are in the public domain, and so is the design of gregorian chant scores. The particular implementation Gregorio looks a little like the particular implementation Gregoria (though you'll see many differences), but they both look like what has been done for centuries. It's like if you said that EB Garamond (http://www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond/, which I encourage people to use) is a copy of Adobe (or Stempel) Garamond, which it isn't...
I spent quite an amount of time on Gregorio (though at least 10 times more would have been better), and learned many useful things with some expert monks; it made me adapt Caeciliae (into greciliae) in a way that, on some points, looks better than the original...
Moreover, can any further software derivatives of Gregorio's design, and for that matter the design of Gregoria itself, be made without any copyright infringement?
For me Gregorio's design does not derivate from Gregoria's design (I can't say I didn't took anything from it, as it was the only correct font at the time)... It looks like it , but just as others do...
Anyway, this discussion is interesting, feel free to disagree! If you really think Gregorio is an illegal carbon-copy of Gregoria, I would be ready to delete it, though I disagree with the statement...
Thank you, -- Elie _______________________________________________ Gregorio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-devel
