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Re: Proprietary Software term
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Proprietary Software term |
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Sat, 18 Aug 2018 13:51:25 +0200 |
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Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:
> Am 18. August 2018 13:08:19 MESZ schrieb DK:
>>Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> We've talked about the issue over and over again, but how do we
>>> call it when using proprietary software prevents us from changing
>>> the tools to work with our data/documents? (Well, actually the same
>>> effect that prevents us to edit LilyPond scores with other
>>> programs, although that's not for license but only for practical
>>> reasons).
>>
>>It's not for "license reasons" with proprietary software either since
>>reading the same file format with a program written from scratch
>>would be perfectly fine. Patents may intervene in strange cases from
>>providing such a program, but copyright generally does.
Generally does _not_. Sorry.
> Indeed, that wasn't expressed too well. What I meant is that
> CodaMusic's policy to use binary non-released (for some time even
> encrypted) file formats strongly discouraged anyone to make a program
> use these files.
That's more than just lock-in. Don't know a good expression, but that's
more like locked-away (don't know a good expression for it) since the
format is designed to keep the user from being able to access his own
information (and/or that of others). In my book, that's a no-no since
it renders archiving worthless.
> In LilyPond's case it's "only" the sheer size of the task.
Let's hope that we get around to doing it eventually.
--
David Kastrup
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