Regarding licenses, the wiki says:
CC-BY-NC-SA: OK. In my understanding, the ZynthianOS licensed under GPL-3 independently from the commercial kit being sold, is a non-commercial undertake.
All correct. My question is, is there any desire for Zynthian to be subsumed into a commercial product? For example, say someone made a Zyn-like box but with Hammond drawbars and sold it for profit with Zynthian pre-loaded, they’d have to delete any NC samplesets. (Note that Zynthian’s GPL license allows such a product, as long as they provide the software and any changes they make publicly availble, IIUC.)
Personally, I like the idea, and so I’d rather avoid having any NC samples included. I think they’d be better off as “secondary,” loadable by the user but not included by default.
So, I’m curious what the Z community thinks about this.
I’d say that is a problem they would need to solve.
I have also a license question: what about libraries hosted on Pianobook with their permissive EULA, but containing a license file stating they are cc-by?
You could shorten the directory names.
Regards
Yeah – mine came from a process rather than a decision. Subject to improvement!
IMHO, we should honor the most restrictive license found at a given site.
In any case, I think we should always credit sources wherever possible regardless of license, and that’s all that CC BY requires.
IMHO, we should have an “About” screen somewhere (probably from Admin → System) that lists all attributions. I’d be surprised if we don’t have some software attributions we need to show but don’t.
I did some further additions here. There is more to Versilians VCSO and VCSL as well as from Karoryfer alone that can serve us very much and all being in CC-0.
Generally yes. But this case I find very interesting, because Pianobook is a site which encourages people to share sample libraries made at home freely, and then there are people who do this and even upload their license agreements, but the EULA of Pianobook says the libraries may not be redistributed, which is somehow contradictory.
I think either they expect samplists not to upload permissive license or their EULA is unsuitable distributing samples in a more prohibitive way the creator intended (and stated)
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Where can I find in zynthian repos where we build the soundfonts/sfz files? I’d really like to get started on hunting down the existing samplesets to check licenses etc., but I just can’t find where we pull it all together.
BTW I noticed that the Stereo Rhodes is Jeff Glatz’s rework of my jRhodes3c. (Although he mentions Alexander Holm as a source too, at Loading... but I suspect that was a mistake.) Not that it matters.
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