On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> > mercial distribution. What I mean is, can something that >> > has been typesetted with Lilypond and layed out with >> > LaTeX be elligible for selling? >> >> I'm not a specialist on the Gnu licences, but as far as >> I can understand, there's nothing that prevents you from >> using Lilypond for commercial typesetting. > >everyone has my full permission to sell lily output for whatever >people want to pay.
In fact, if you were to say otherwise, that might be in violation of the GPL. The GNU GPL places restrictions on distribution of the program and its source code, but these restrictions usually do not apply to the output of the program. One of the freedoms guaranteed by the license is that you can use the program for whatever purpose you like, including making money, as long as you follow the rules regarding modification and re-distribution of the program. One interesting exception was with the Bison parser generator. The output of a Bison program allegedly does contain actual parts of the source code of Bison. It was initially judged that Bison could not be used to make proprietary software, because that software would contain some of the GPL'ed source code of Bison. The makers of Bison, however, decided to make an explicit exception for this, allowing the output of Bison to be used in any way, including in proprietary software. There's plenty of commercial software for Unix, sold in binary form only, that has been compiled with gcc. This is OK, because these binaries are the output of gcc, not gcc itself. -- HTH, Bob Schmertz Yahoo Messenger ID: rschmertz _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
