Re: LilyPond, LilyPond snippets and the GPL

[Hans Åberg]

> On 30 Oct 2019, at 22:14, Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>    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.
> 
> What processed part remains in the output?

If say somebody makes a snippet on how to make special type of clef, then that 
is copyrightable, just as a font and its glyphs are, it would seem, and that 
copyright will remain if copy-and-pasted into user code.