On 09/01/2010 01:41 PM, Paul Giblock wrote:
While I agree with documenting the license
of all files, we have a problem: backwards compatibility. What to do
if we cannot determine the license of a sample currently included with
LMMS? The obvious solution is: Drop it, most of the samples suck
anyways. But, what about existing projects? Perhaps I want to play an
old project from before the sample-cleanup. Or, perhaps I want to
listen to some preset on LSP. Even if every sample that ships with
LMMS is verified as "free", we still need to give the user _some_
channel to obtain the "potentially non-free" samples.With proper
warnings of course. Such as "The origin of these files are unknown.
Author assumes all risks by using these in a project, blah blah blah".
And the second package doesn't have to be officially endorsed by us -
it could be provided by a "fan".
Good point. Even replacing a sample with a similar-sounding one will
change the way an old project sounds. I volunteer to host the
data/package and torrent on my tracker if it comes to that. They could
be linked to from the LMMS web site. We could have one 32/64-bit .deb
and one archive containing just the samples and directory structure for
non-Debian distros.
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