On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 12:34 PM David Kastrup <[email protected]> wrote:

> Urs Liska <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Am 09.12.18 um 17:54 schrieb Carl Sorensen:
> >>
> >> *From: *Ralph Palmer <[email protected]>
> >> *Date: *Sunday, December 9, 2018 at 5:41 AM
> >> *To: *<[email protected]>
> >> *Cc: *<[email protected]>, lilypond-user Mailinglist <[email protected]>
> >> *Subject: *Re: lilypond.org Productions page
> >>
> >> I'm currently working on a collection of fiddle tunes
> >> transcribed/transposed for viola. It includes copyrighted music, but
> >> I have explicit permission from the copyright holders to post the
> >> collection publicly on the internet.
> >>
> >> I would prefer that we not limit the productions to public domain
> >> and open content licensed material.  In my opinion, as long as the
> >> music is available to see on the web (preferably in pdf form), we
> >> should let it be listed on our productions page.
> >>
> >
> > I'm afraid this isn't a matter of personal opinion, because "we're a
> > GNU project" etc. etc.
>
> The question is just what conditions we are talking about here regarding
> further distribution.  The GFDL is not a public license either.  And
> with regard to the FSF, Stallman is actually not all that much
> interested in matters outside of software and its documentation.
>
> So it's likely more a matter of what we want to see/promote.  A fuzzy "I
> can publish on the Internet" without clear idea about what people may
> actually do when tripping on this "on the Internet" is actually not
> unlikely to lead us into trouble.  "I can publish" and "the LilyPond
> project may publish" are different things.  If it's not clear what
> people may actually do with it, a subset (marked or even available
> separately) with more clearcut conditions may actually be more useful to
> some subset of users.
>
> --
> David Kastrup
>

Thanks for the clarification, David.

Ralph

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Ralph Palmer
Brattleboro, VT
USA
[email protected]
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