On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:06:39 +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: > But maybe you could answer a question I have regarding the Traktor NML > format. Is this in some way protected under some kind of "intellectual > property" of NI? As more and more netlabels like Thinner now also > provide *.nml files for their releases, I intended to write a small Pd > external that parses and makes this information available inside of > Pd. This is easy to do, and I will do it anyway, but I just wonder if > I could distribute the plugin legally and under the GPL.
I believe that as you are using the data for interoperability purposes that you are OK. The DMCA and (now aborted) european thing both allow that. - Steve
