Re:Why do Lilyond Engravers have inhibitions to store their score in Mutopia?

[ross]

> - Why do Lilyond Engravers have inhibitions to store their score in Mutopia?
> - Are there any hidden fences which I am not able to see?
> - Are the copyright-restrictions the reason for keeping scores hidden?
> - Is Mutopia not worth contributing?
> - Why is Mutopia not the official music code repository for Lilypond?
>
> - Or am I misleaded?

The guy Chris who accepts submissions has a good eye for what will  
work under copyright law.

For example, just last month for an upcoming recital I used Lilypond  
to edit together this Haydn Divertimento for clarinets and horns whose  
parts are in C in both the published and urtext editions. Just to be a  
nice guy and share my work with the world, I sent this music (composed  
by a guy who died 200 years ago next month) to Mutopia. Unfortunately  
citing "urtext" as my source failed because the edition wasn't old  
enough. I wouldn't know where to begin to find a suitably old edition  
to cite it; any of you musicologists out there have any advice?

But getting back to your questions: Mutopia is nice, but I should hope  
that, someday, when compiling a score takes a fraction of a second and  
copyright law is overhauled, people will use Wikimedia Commons to  
store and edit all of man's written music. I can't wait until the day  
they bring the lilypond plugin for MediaWiki over to Wikipedia!

Regards
Ross Uber