Re: Towards a better license for Mutopia

[Chris Sawer]

Bernd Warken wrote:
> David Chan wrote:
> > [BTW Mutopia is not an official GNU project, though Lilypond is].
>
> Then, why should I contribute to Mutopia?

Nobody's saying you have to. I'd be sad if you felt unable to 
contribute to Mutopia just because of licensing problems, but I hope 
these can eventually be resolved. If you want to get some lawyers 
together and create a copyleft license suitable for use with music, 
then go ahead.  :-)

> It shouldn't be too hard to make it a GNU project.

Why should we? I'm not a religious follower of copyleft/the GPL, and 
would not be in favour of making Mutopia a GNU project, as apart from 
anything else I think they'd make us copyleft everything. Don't get me 
wrong - I don't mind people placing music on Mutopia under a suitable 
copyleft license (if one is ever created), but I wouldn't like the 
whole of Mutopia to go this way.

Chris

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Chris Sawer - address@hidden - Mutopia Maintainer