2008/9/18 Anders Dahnielson <anders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 15:12, Emanuel Rumpf <xbran@xxxxxx> wrote: >> >> 2008/9/18 Anders Dahnielson <anders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> > >> > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 14:28, Emanuel Rumpf <xbran@xxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> >> The sad truth is: There currently is no real open patch specification. >> >> (And if there was one, it would take some time to become spread and >> >> accepted.) >> > >> > That's not true. SFZ is an open and free specification. I know, I'm >> > working >> > on an implementation of the SFZ 2.0 spec. >> > >> If it is free, where do I get that specification 2.0 ? >> The last time I've had a look at it, the publication was out of date >> and incomplete. > > The SFZ 2.0 is currently only available in the book 'Cakewalk Synthesizers' > by Simon Cann. Note that I'm not talking free as in beer here. > > I've tried to publish some errata for the 1.0 spec regarding stuff that I've > come across: > > https://bb.linuxsampler.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=186 > Thank you for the Information, Anders Dahnielson. So the the specification is available, that's good. Searching the web, I find this site: http://www.cakewalk.com/DevXchange/sfz.asp At the bottom I find: "Copyright (c) 2008 by Cakewalk, Inc. All rights reserved." There is no further license information, but a note at the top: "Soundware, software and hardware developers can create, use and distribute the sfz format files for free, for either free or commercial applications." We are allowed to use *files* created in the format for "free" or "commercial" applications (with no further info, what "free" / "commercial" means in this context) That is a kind of vague freedom. But the specification itself is still unfree (as in speach), scince I'm not allowed to spread it reproduce it, give it to friends. Regards, Emanuel _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
