On Wed, 19 May 1999, Paul Winkler wrote: > Csound is described, variously, as "the POVray of sound", or a "waveform > compiler", or a "software synthesizer." ... > Csound is free, but is not Free Software. Some points of the license are > not quite clear, but certainly your own csound orcs and sco's are yours > to distribute as you see fit. This sucks. This *really* sucks. But fortunately, someone is working on an open source/free software replacement for Csound -- Paul Barton-Davis's Quasimodo project, <http://www.op.net/~pbd/quasimodo/>. It is a reimplementation of the Csound language -- all your orcs and scos will be useable with it. Paul recently posted a call for developers (<http://www.op.net/~pbd/quasimodo/copycall.txt>), and I believe the FSF will be offering support; what is really needed are people familiar with Csound to contribute free opcodes for Quasimodo (details at above URL), so if you know any Csound hackers, please tell them about this.
