license & soundfont

[hollunder at gmx.at]

On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 21:15:03 +0100
"Toby Smithe" <tsmithe at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 8:41 PM,  <hollunder at gmx.at> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 18:57:49 +0100
> >  "Toby Smithe" <tsmithe at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >
> >  > On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 2:30 PM,  <hollunder at gmx.at> wrote:
> >  > > What license must a soundfont be under to make it possible for
> >  > > you to integrate it?
> >  >
> >  > Any free distribution licence is fine. For instance, I
> >  > recommended the Fluid SoundFont be MIT licensed, mainly because
> >  > it was closest to what the upstream had envisaged as "Public
> >  > Domain, but please include a copyright notice".
> >  >
> >  GPL would probably also be an option.
> >  It's inconvenient that the cc licenses are not approved by debian,
> > the possibility to choose some terms would have been nice.
> >  I guess a cc licensed soundfont couldn't get included?
> 
> GPL is certainly an option. I only suggested MIT as that's the one
> that has been used before :-)
> 
> I'm not sure about the status of CC licences; I'm sure they're free
> enough to be included, though how Debian's stance is and affects us is
> unclear. If you're really keen, you could e-mail debian-legal and ask.
> 

Thanks Toby,
it would be nice to use a license that complies to debian, because if
it's ok for them, it's probably ok for everyone else.
I just don't know if we can use such a license.

I won't contact debian-legal, I just don't like that kind of stuff..

Thanks for advice,
	Philipp