On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 09:44, Guy Clotilde wrote: > On 22 Apr 2003 01:42:15 -0400, Nick Tsocanos wrote / a écrit: > > > I am building a Rebirth file player/converter/sequencer. > > Hi > I used to play with ReBorn, a ReBirth clone for Linux, that had legal problems with propellerheads. The gui was the same. But neither I don't see how a file format could be copyrighted (see MS-Word: OpenOffice can read and write .doc files. But I'm not a lawyer. > I wish I had been able to get a copy of Reborn. > Anyway, It will be very nice if you release your program. Do you think it is difficult to have midi-synchronized capabilities? > Not really at all. My program Tekno Composer is like Rebirth sequencers. The new version I am working (not released yet) is a full ALSA client and will control other MIDI devices and drum machines. You just map the MIDI output to the device (using ALSA patch bay and configuee the patch/bank it will use). I wanted to make a full file player that would emulate Rebirth too. That is what I might not be able to do. I wonder if the guy who did Reborn could use his code to make just a file player so you could at least listen to Rebirth songs. File formats can be copyrighted actually from what I understand. It is possible to copyright them and refuse people to build a parser for it. I guess after all these years people still use Rebirth.
