Re: LilyPond, LilyPond snippets and the GPL

[Hans Åberg]

> On 30 Oct 2019, at 23:05, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hans Åberg <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> The snippets should be LGPL for being includable under other licenses,
>> I believe, because the processed part remains in the output, and thus
>> copyrightable. Thus, they play the same role as the Bison skeleton
>> file and GCC libraries.
> 
> LSR snippets are public domain already.

So then this is not an issue, but public domain means that it can be exploited 
in ways you may not approve of, therefore LGPL would be better. But I am not an 
expert on such matters.