Re: Another Lilypond Story

[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Thursday 16 December 2004 05:16 pm, Erik Sandberg wrote:
> On Thursday 16 December 2004 22.10, address@hidden wrote:
> > I used Lilypond to write "The Legend of the Toad", which will be
> > commercially available mid January in a recording by Roby Lakatos,
> > and for which a demo which can be downloaded from
> >
> > http://www.thelegendofthetoad.com
> >
> > as well as the Lilypond-engraved scores.
>
> Great!
>
> Very nice dedication also. A small note: It could be adequate to mention
> which lily version that has been used in the PDF you published, for the
> interested reader (at least I had the question in mind when I read it :) ).
>
> > (This does not mean that the music is not copyrighted, or that it is
> > not subject to execution rights, it just means that the score are
> > available free of charge).
>
> Did you check if there is a license at Creative Commons
> (creativecommons.org) which would be adequate to use for the score?
>
> It might be a better protection for your copyright, if you attach a
> concrete license to the score, which clearly states what you may and may
> not do, written in lawyer language. There are many different licenses at
> CC, chances are that one of them suits you.

A license *might* protect some evildoer ripping you off but it won't protect 
you,  You don't want to give all and sundry any license.  I use "possession 
of this document does not confer on the bearer any rights at all."  You have
the copyright.  A license cannot improve on that.  daveA