Re: LilyPond, LilyPond snippets and the GPL

[David Kastrup]

Hans Åberg <address@hidden> writes:

>> On 30 Oct 2019, at 23:05, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> Hans Åberg <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>> The snippets should be LGPL for being includable under other licenses,
>>> I believe, because the processed part remains in the output, and thus
>>> copyrightable. Thus, they play the same role as the Bison skeleton
>>> file and GCC libraries.
>> 
>> LSR snippets are public domain already.
>
> So then this is not an issue, but public domain means that it can be
> exploited in ways you may not approve of, therefore LGPL would be
> better. But I am not an expert on such matters.

For the snippets, that is a reasonable compromise avoiding the user
having reservations and headaches.  They are more intended as starting
points for your own documents than as cut&dry code.

-- 
David Kastrup