On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 21:15:03 +0100
"Toby Smithe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 8:41 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 18:57:49 +0100
> > "Toby Smithe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 2:30 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > What license must a soundfont be under to make it possible for
> > > > you to integrate it?
> > >
> > > Any free distribution licence is fine. For instance, I
> > > recommended the Fluid SoundFont be MIT licensed, mainly because
> > > it was closest to what the upstream had envisaged as "Public
> > > Domain, but please include a copyright notice".
> > >
> > GPL would probably also be an option.
> > It's inconvenient that the cc licenses are not approved by debian,
> > the possibility to choose some terms would have been nice.
> > I guess a cc licensed soundfont couldn't get included?
>
> GPL is certainly an option. I only suggested MIT as that's the one
> that has been used before :-)
>
> I'm not sure about the status of CC licences; I'm sure they're free
> enough to be included, though how Debian's stance is and affects us is
> unclear. If you're really keen, you could e-mail debian-legal and ask.
>
Thanks Toby,
it would be nice to use a license that complies to debian, because if
it's ok for them, it's probably ok for everyone else.
I just don't know if we can use such a license.
I won't contact debian-legal, I just don't like that kind of stuff..
Thanks for advice,
Philipp
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