Andrew Bernard <andrew.bern...@gmail.com> writes: > I am finding this thread weird, sorry. There's a huge amount of help in the > archives of this list in how to install and run openlilylib. A quick search > would show that. It's a sort of FAQ. > > Also, lilypond is GPL, so does the following mean you are therefore not > able to even use the program Karsten? > > On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 at 06:20, Karsten Reincke <k.rein...@fodina.de> wrote: > >> >> a) It is licensed under GPL. I think this is not appropriate for music. >> In a few days I will write a little article about this topic. But >> without changing that license I cannot contribute to it. >> >> I fail to understand this. How can an open source licence not be >> appropriate for music?
Do you really want to force everybody giving sheet music to somebody else to accompany it with a written offer to the LilyPond source code? Or otherwise be prohibited from distribution? That's not really practical for most choir directors. -- David Kastrup
