On 16/08/12 19:35, Paul Davis wrote:
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:49 AM, Nils<list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Am Wed, 15 Aug 2012 23:22:22 -0300
schrieb Marcel Bonnet<marcelbonnet@xxxxxxxxx>:
Hi, there.
What about these samples
http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/thesoundexchange/make_music/samples/library/
?
"License: You are free to use these samples as you wish, including
releasing them as part of a commercial work. The only restriction is
they must not be sold or made available 'as is' (i.e. as sampler or as
a sampler instrument)."
Hello Marcel,
the License means that you can't compile the samples in soundfont,
gigastudio, kontakt etc. file. I guess the intention of the license is
to prevent .sfz as well, although technically you could argue that the
samples are still "as is" in sfz format, there is only a meta file
added. But the same is true if you compress them and include metadata,
so the case could be made for any sampler format.
if you really wanted to set things up so that many people could use them,
you could distribute them as-is with a script that generated an sfz, or as
a script that fetched them from the original site, and then generated an
sfz. the license wording though is really non-sensical, and in fact as it
is written, my interpretation would be "you cannot give these to anyone
else in the form in which you have received them ("as-is") - if you
distribute them it must be free of charge and in some OTHER format".
It seems to me the license is trying to say you can use the samples to make a
piece of music with, that the samples can be used to make commercial music etc,
and that that work can be distributed ... but they cannot be distributed as a
full set of samples.
So ... it is saying you can use the individual samples as notes in a work, (i.e.
in some other format than a sample collection) but you can't distribute them as
a set of samples, (i.e. in the form you got them). It makes sense, it seems the
author does not want them distributed as a sample library. It may not be clear
or unambiguous legally but the intention seems clear.
Simon
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