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Re: Lilypond for FL Studio ...


From: Bernardo Barros
Subject: Re: Lilypond for FL Studio ...
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:24:07 -0300

They can still make money with GPL. Yes, they are not going to do that.

They can export to .ly format and support LilyPond development with
employees  or money. That's also good option.

2010/7/21 Alexander Kobel <address@hidden>:
> On 2010-07-18 14:53, Valentin Villenave wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Jean-Marie Cannie<address@hidden>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> We are the developers of FL Studio (formerly known as Fruityloops)
>>> and we are looking to print music sheets direct from our software.
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> whilst I'm certain we all appreciate this tribute to LilyPond's
>> quality and reliability, you have to know that GNU LilyPond is free
>> software (GPLv3 licensed), and as such it cannot be embedded in (nor
>> link to) non-free software.
>
> Wait a minute, is this real?
>
> MacOS X ships with XCode.  XCode ships with the GCC.  GCC is mentioned on
> the no. 1 of Internet encyclopedias as the no. 2 of GPL-licensed software.
> Does this mean that Apple
>  a) has some weird kind of agreement with the developers of GCC (virtually
> impossible, since the number is legion)?
>  b) relies that nobody (e.g. Macrohard, the ones with Door OS) will ever
> care and sue them?
>  c) relies that if they ever get sued they'll either win the fight or just
> have to pay a few bucks?
>  d) just knows that this is allowed?
>
> I'm not a lawyer, but to my understanding: d). A plain bundling of a binary
> does not violate even the GPL.  It's not linked (not "making function calls
> or sharing data structures"), it's not embedded, it's just shipped with
> (without modifications, of course) and called.
> If this is possible, it'd be a real good thing for LilyPond, by the way.
>  Interested (and paid) developers who will have to spent at least a bit of
> their time to interface and output of a program is always a Good Thing.
>
> By the way, reading the other mails: of course it's not an option to hope
> for FL Studio to be relicensed under the GPL - FL wants to make money with
> it.  It's their business, and it most probably won't work just with support.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Alexander
>
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