Re: Potential LSR licensing violations

[Thomas Morley]

Am Do., 20. Okt. 2022 um 21:30 Uhr schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwenn@gmail.com>:
>
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 2:34 AM Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> wrote:
> > So far, so good. However, take this snippet:
> >
> > https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=102
> >
> > It begins with 300 lines of code that used to be in the LilyPond
> > repository, released under the GPL, before they were considered
> > legacy and moved to a snippet. I am pretty sure this violates
> > the GPL. 300 lines looks too much for fair use law to apply,
> > doesn't it?
>
> Why not ask Jan who wrote the chords snippet if is he OK to relicense
> the snippet as public domain? (or, maybe he already did this when the
> snippet was submitted)
>
> --
> Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwenn@gmail.com - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
>

Yep, though pretty often the author of a snippet is not known to the
LSR editor...

Cheers,
  Harm