Re: Potential LSR licensing violations

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Jean Abou Samra writes:

Hello Jean,

> Adding you to this lilypond-devel thread.

[..]

> In doing so, Valentin didn't realize that moving this code to LSR was
> a violation of the GPL, because the code was under GPL but LSR
> snippets are in the public domain.

Right.  Sounds like an honest oversight.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

> To my knowledge, this is a more or less isolated case. It would be
> simpler to have all of LSR in the public domain. Would you mind
> sending a written statement that you release this code under the
> public domain?

Sure.

    Hereby I place this [legacy Banter chord names] code in the public
    domain or Creative Commons CC0 license, whichever you prefer.

Greetings,
Janneke

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