Re: Future of openLilyLib

[Andrew Bernard]

Karsten, despite your lengthy discourse on licensing, I am sure you
have the wrong end of the stick here. Your unique interpretation of
GPL in relation to lilypond is not shared by anybody as far as I know.
Users are happily producing scores and works not subject to having to
provide source code. It's important to point out to users and readers
of this list that the use of openlilylib changes nothing, so that
people are not deterred from using it - which is the potential
deleterious effect of your post.

You are welcome to your views, but there is such a thing as holding
incorrect views. I am not being impolite. to you, merely realistic.
Carl has also questioned the validity of your logic, as previously. Is
your intent to shut down lilypond altogether? It's not clear what you
are aiming at.

I have worked on openlilylib with Urs and it would be a tragedy to see
it sink because of a complicated legal misrepresentation put about. I
am fully aware of the previous debate about this matter.

I thought long before making a post as it may offend you, but that is
not the intention, and I have been polite. But as someone dedicated to
the long term success of openlilylib and indeed lilypond, this sort of
seeding doubt about complex copyright issues can do little to advance
the cause, and I fear, undermine it in people that you may influence.

I have worked with GPL for decades or however long it has been around
in software development, and I have never seen this argument raised in
relation to applications.

Andrew