Christian Mondrup writes: > As far as I know Lilypond in an early stage was sort of offspin off > musixtex in that respect that Lilypond used parts of musixtex > including the musixtex fonts for the final graphic representation of > its music information.
This just for the archives, not to reopen past arguments. You may be confusing my musixtex preprosesssor (mpp) with LilyPond. LilyPond has been a separate project from the start, borrowing only the musixtex font during the first year (until 0.1.39). When I needed to add some glyphs and wanted to make the number-glyhs more to my liking, we found out that the licence did not allow us to do so. Requests for a more permissive licence were turned down. After a heated discussion with all parties involved, Han-Wen and I were given explicit, non-transferable permission*) to change the font. That was a kind gesture, but we wanted our users to have the same freedoms as ourselves, so we had to design our own font (which turned out to be a very nice thing to do). Greetings, Jan. *) By unsigned, private email, which was the most we could get, but which would not have been enough to be allowed distribution in Debian, for example. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org _______________________________________________ Tex-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
