Re: [fluid-dev] Is it possible to immigrate FluidSynth to a DSP(ADSP21xxx) or an CORTEX-M4 CPU? (Stan Zhang)

[David Henningsson]

On 03/22/2013 02:07 AM, *simple* wrote:
> Aere,
> This is my first reply to the mailing list. I am not sure if there is
> any format not good.
> Thanks for your suggestion. The sound font I am going to use is copied
> from Creative's sound card installation CD: CT4MGM.SF2 (4M bytes). The
> quality should be OK for me. But I am not sure if this is a free sound
> font. Do you have any idea on this?

First, FluidSynth itself and its copyright holders have no legal problem 
with you using free or non-free soundfonts.

Second, it's very likely that Creative's soundfonts are not legally 
redistributable.

So for the CT4MGM.SF2 file - FluidSynth won't mind, but Creative 
probably will.

Third, if you would like to make your changes to FluidSynth (e g the ASM 
optimisations you wrote about) available under the LGPL license, just as 
the rest of FluidSynth, that would be appreciated and recommended. 
Otherwise you might get in trouble if you start redistributing your 
modified version of FluidSynth.

(And as usual, I'm not a lawyer, so this is not legal advice.)

// David