Re: License for lilypond transcriptions of public domain resources

[Voyageur Galactique]

Ok I found an answer to the 2nd question:
In most cases a special exception provided for GPL fonts.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FontException
It is the case for the emmentaler font.


On 6 March 2011 16:05, Voyageur Galactique
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to publish some lilypond transcriptions of old scores available
> as public domain ressources.
>
> I wonder what license is the most adequate. A natural choice would be
> to release it as "public domain" but it seems this notion is not
> accepted in all country. I think I will release it as CC BY or CC
> BY-SA
>
> Another topic is about the pdf documents engraved with lilypond. Since
> the fonts used in lilypond are GPLed
>
> I have two different questions :
>
> 1/ What license would you personnaly chose and why ?
>
> 2/ What license am I allowed to chose for engraved documents (pdf
> produced with lilypond).
>