On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 10:11:09AM -0300, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Graham Percival > <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote: > > Commercial services are ok, but non-Free software is not. The GNU > > coding standards are quite clear on this: > > > > "A GNU program should not recommend, promote, or grant legitimacy > > to the use of any non-free program. Proprietary software is a > > social and ethical problem, and our aim is to put an end to that > > problem." > > http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/References.html > > neither scorio nor tunefl are considered non-free programs, so they > should be OK. FSF's beef is with restrictive licensing, since > licensing means you cannot freely copy the software ("share with your > neighbors").
I must be blind, because I can't find any source code on the scorio website. I _do_ see apps for the ipad, and I know that due to Apple's licensing terms, those aren't compatible with the GPL. Of course, since scorio presumably owns their own source code, they could be dual-licensing it. I also can't find source on the tunefl website. Their "legal" page says that they allow third-party companies to track you on their webiste, and that users shouldn't submit copywritten material and that the users licenses tunefl.com to use that material. I'm not seeing how I can freely copy either of their software. Granted, this probably gets into the realm of "software as a service", but given that the GPLv3 specifically losed some loopholes about that, I doubt that GNU would consider non-source "software as a service" to be Free software. I can check, if you want. - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user