On 04/04/2017 20:45, mau...@smoors.de wrote: > Hi everyone, > > at the end of the last week, Mira (the debian maintainer of hydrogen) > contacted us and brought up an issue which has been reported at the > debian bugtracker: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=858281. > > As a short summary, a user found out that the license of the GMKit > samples is unclear and that it might be the case that those samples were > recorded from a synth, which might limit the use of such samples. A > quick inquiry from our side confirmed this. > > This situation is in my opinion very serious for us and we should look > make sure that are default kits are freely distributable. As a > consequence, i would like to remove the GMKit from hydrogen. At the > moment i don't have an idea how we could replace it. Maybe it would be a > an alternative to keep the name GMKit, but replace the samples (for > compatibility with older songs). > > Does anyone know of a kit with a suitable license which might be well > suited as a default kit for Hydrogen? It should be small, universally > usable and GM-compatible. > > Another idea would be a new drumkit contest, with an extra price for a > new default kit. > > Best regards, > Sebastian
Hello, I just wanted to add something on the subject of nonfree drumkits. The Parabola GNU-linux libre distro has also issues with nonfree drumkits, on thus makes its own package of hydrogen (otherwise it is an Archlinux based distro and uses Archlinux packages). Maybe it is the occasion to make the default version of Hydrogen totally free, and prevent the use of more libre versions of Hydrogen. I’m not sure what modifications Parabola make to Hydrogen, it seems to be a simple sed: https://git.parabola.nu/abslibre.git/tree/libre/hydrogen/PKGBUILD -- Sacha « Shaac » Delanoue ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Hydrogen-devel mailing list Hydrogen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hydrogen-devel
