Re: LilyPond, LilyPond snippets and the GPL

[Hans Åberg]

> On 30 Oct 2019, at 23:36, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hans Åberg <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>>> 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.
> 
> For the snippets, that is a reasonable compromise avoiding the user
> having reservations and headaches.  They are more intended as starting
> points for your own documents than as cut&dry code.

As examples, I have also done that. So if everyone is happy with that, it is a 
non-issue.