Package: minuet-data
Version: 17.08.3-2
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
Package minuet-data contains file
/usr/share/minuet/soundfonts/GeneralUser-v1.47.sf2. The origin of this
file is [1]. This file has unclean GeneralUser license which contains
such text
** License of the complete work **
You may use GeneralUser GS without restriction for your own music creation,
private or commercial. This SoundFont bank is provided to the community free
of charge. Please feel free to use it in your software projects, and to modify
the SoundFont bank or its packaging to suit your needs.
** License of contained samples **
GeneralUser GS inherits the usage rights of the samples contained within, all
of which allow full use in music production, including the ability to make
profit from musical recordings created with GeneralUser GS.
Many of the samples are original, but some were taken from other banks freely (and
legally) available on the Internet from various SoundFont websites. Because GeneralUser
GS originated as a personal project with no intention for publication, I cannot be 100%
sure where all of the samples originated, although I do know that none of them came from
commercially published SoundFont packages or sample CDs. Regardless, many
"free" SoundFonts available on the web may indeed contain samples of
questionable origin. My understanding of the copyrights of all samples is only as good
as the information provided by the original sources. If you become aware of any
restricted samples being used in GeneralUser GS, please let me know so I can replace them.
Is that license suitable for Debian? Does debian/copyright file from
minuet package have to contain this license?
Also there is a thread about this license [2] at
debian-le...@lists.debian.org where there is an opinion that this
license is not DFSG.
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[1] https://www.schristiancollins.com/generaluser.php
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2023/03/msg00002.html
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