Hans Åberg <haber...@telia.com> writes: >> On 30 Oct 2019, at 18:48, Carl Sorensen <c_soren...@byu.edu> wrote: >> >> This says to me that you can consider LSR snippets as part of the >> code used to create music (any music, not just your specific music). >> You can then put your specific music in a separate file, with >> separate copyright. And the modified LilyPond (including the LSR >> snippets) is a derivative work of LilyPond, and has GPL rights, and >> you would be required to share all of that code. But the created >> music engraving (pdf, svg, or midi) is not a derivative work of >> LilyPond, but an output of the program lilypond, and cannot be >> restricted by the GPL, according to the FSF. > > The snippets should be LGPL for being includable under other licenses, > I believe, because the processed part remains in the output, and thus > copyrightable. Thus, they play the same role as the Bison skeleton > file and GCC libraries.
LSR snippets are public domain already. -- David Kastrup
