On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Hans Aberg<hab...@math.su.se> wrote: >>> If you meant ghostscript in particular, then I guess we'll have to >>> stay with ghostscript <8.70 for now. >> >> We don't link to ghostscript -- we merely call the command line program >> -- so the GPL doesn't apply. > > I think that copyright only applies to how it is redistributed, and not how > it is used. Mac OS X LilyPond has a gs in its distribution. So its GPL > version will apply to that part when (re-)distribution. So you need to make > sure that when you distribute it, you do not violate any of its terms, like > tivoization - which isn't an issue on Mac OS X.
The lilypond installer is an aggregration of several packages, each under its own license, rather than a derived work which would have to be under GPL. There is no problem here. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - han...@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
