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  • Is GeneralUser soundfont's license suitable for Debian main?

    From undef@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 22 22:10:01 2023
    Hello.

    GeneralUser GS [1] is a SoundFont bank for playing MIDI files. Its
    license contains such sentences:


    ---

    ** License of the complete work **
    You may use GeneralUser GS without restriction for your own music
    creation, private or commercial.  This SoundFont bank is provided to the community free of charge.  Please feel free to use it in your software projects, and to modify the SoundFont bank or its packaging to suit your
    needs.

    ** License of contained samples **
    GeneralUser GS inherits the usage rights of the samples contained
    within, all of which allow full use in music production, including the
    ability to make profit from musical recordings created with GeneralUser GS.

    Many of the samples are original, but some were taken from other banks
    freely (and legally) available on the Internet from various SoundFont websites.  Because GeneralUser GS originated as a personal project with
    no intention for publication, I cannot be 100% sure where all of the
    samples originated, although I do know that none of them came from
    commercially published SoundFont packages or sample CDs.  Regardless,
    m
  • From Paul Wise@21:1/5 to undef on Thu Mar 23 01:40:02 2023
    On Wed, 2023-03-22 at 23:47 +0300, undef wrote:

    ** License of the complete work **
    You may use GeneralUser GS without restriction for your own music
    creation, private or commercial.  This SoundFont bank is provided to the community free of charge.  Please feel free to use it in your software projects, and to modify the SoundFont bank or its packaging to suit your needs.

    I'm not comfortable with how this mentions specific ways the soundfont
    can be used; "your own music creation", "in your software". What about
    other people's music or other people's software? This is especially
    problematic for collaboratively produced open source software.

    ** License of contained samples **
    ...
    I cannot be 100% sure where all of the samples originated
    ...
    Could you say, is "License of contained samples" allowable for Debian or such files are fully non-allowed?

    I don't think this license would pass ftp-master review, there is too
    much uncertainty about the provenance and license of the samples.

    --
    bye,
    pabs

    https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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  • From undef@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 23 12:40:01 2023
    I don't think this license would pass ftp-master review, there is too
    much uncertainty about the provenance and license of the samples.

    Thank you for the answer.

    Also I found this soundfont in the existing Debian package minuet-data by path /usr/share/minuet/soundfonts/GeneralUser-v1.47.sf2. [1]

    --
    [1] https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/minuet-data/filelist

    23.03.2023 03:31, Paul Wise пишет:
    I don't think this license would pass ftp-master review, there is too
    much uncertainty about the provenance and license of the samples.

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  • From Paul Wise@21:1/5 to undef on Fri Mar 24 04:10:01 2023
    On Thu, 2023-03-23 at 14:13 +0300, undef wrote:

    Also I found this soundfont in the existing Debian package minuet-data by path
    /usr/share/minuet/soundfonts/GeneralUser-v1.47.sf2. [1]

    I suggest you bring this to the attention of minuet-data upstream and
    also file a bug about it in Debian if you didn't already.

    --
    bye,
    pabs

    https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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