Re: Potential LSR licensing violations

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 21/10/2022 à 13:21, Kevin Barry a écrit :
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 01:12:09PM +0200, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> > -- AFAIK, this is the first time we have to do a relicensing,
> > and the odds of a legal case involving LilyPond are very small
> > due to its low-key profile in the industry. I feel this would
> > be much ado about nothing.
> This is why I think it's usually better not to pay any attention to
> licence issues that don't come in the form of cease-and-desist or
> whatever. This whole exercise was (IMO) much ado about nothing.



It would have helped IMO if all the more or less unrelated side
questions had been raised in separate threads…



> And we are now left with the question of whether licensing is now part
> of the duties of LSR editors. As Thomas said, it's not mentioned in the
> CG. I guess we have to add it?



What's the specification of that job?

As I wrote to Harm (but maybe the mailing list didn't
deliver that post to you yet), I don't think there is
a lot to do. If you see a clear license violation,
correct it, as we've done here. But this is likely to
be rare and I don't think actively actively searching for
violations is a good use of one's time.

Jean