Hello all. SIrBothersome here. As some of you probably know, over the
course of the years, the native LMMS sample library has been accused on
multiple occasions of copyright violation/improper licensing, or something
to that effect. Well, last night, looking through LMMS legacy repos, I made
an important discovery. Our current library appears to have been first
implemented in version 0.09, though without the .ds files and a few of the
.oggs. A good portion of them still appear though. In the "authors" file,
one Sebastian Tilsch
<https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/20342439/21168086/508cd196-c17f-11e6-8a7e-56a8eb2cd575.PNG>
is credited for "Recording many samples". Credit to Tilsch first appears in
version 0.09. This strongly suggests that the majority of LMMS's sample
library *is *properly licensed. Many of the samples are acoustic, or appear
to have been sampled from a drum machine. (I have yet to see Roland go
after people for recording the TR-808). There are a few sample of unknown
origin
<https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/20342439/21168084/5086141e-c17f-11e6-8a66-694b18b32167.PNG>,
but in the first release of LMMS (0.01) Tobydox credits a sound website (
sound.condorow.net). This site appears to no longer be in existence, but site
data <http://www.searchtagslist.com/www/sound.condorow.net> seems to
indicate it would offer open-licensed samples. I find this to be rather
conclusive evidence that the native sample library offers nothing to worry
about in terms of licensing. Hope you like this find, and have nice day
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