Re: status of mutopia project

[Janek Warchoł]

2011/4/8 Francisco Vila <address@hidden>
>
> 2011/4/8 steve <address@hidden>:
> > Howdy!
> >
> >   Hope this isn't too OT, but can't get any info anywhere else..
> >
> >   What is the status of the mutopiaproject http://mutopiaproject.org ??
> >
> >   I have discovered errors in goldberg aria, reported them to
> > all contacts, even added corrected source files. Also just
> > recently tried to subscribe to mailing list at mutopiaproject and
> > the subscription request(s) bounced!!  This has been going on
> > for at least a year. No corrections, no acknowledgement, no contact
> > at all??
> >
> >    Is this project dead?
>
> Sadly yes it is, in practice.  Latest updates are dec 2010 (four
> posts). Any posts previous to those 4 are a year old.  I'd love that
> Petrucci Music Library http://imslp.org/wiki/ supported maintaining of
> source lilypond files in the same site.  Sceaux and others just link
> to their own sites for sources.

At least we can be thankful that the project website is still available...

> Maybe it is a good thing that freely available scores mix scanned and
> typeset documents whatever their origin or the software used; but no
> doubt that completely free scores are only possible if you have the
> source _and_ the typesetting engine is free as in freedom (i.e. Finale
> documents are useless for me for a triple reason: I need a costly
> software to see them, even if a viewer is available at zero cost I
> still can not hack the score, and even if I could, I am not free
> because that viewer is prorietary software).

Any Linux user has at least one more reason - finale doesn't run on Linux...

cheers,
Janek