On 16 August 2012 08:35, Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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)." >> > >> > I'm just starting with them. I think any linuxsampler user probably >> > knows, but what do you guys think of these samples? Does it meet the >> > tech and license requirements? My first bad impression is about the >> > sample format, they are all distributed as MP3 - I would consider a >> > non compressed format instead. >> >> >> 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". Thanks, folks. This topic is really making me understand the legal and tech problems in another way. I think I did not paid enough attention to the "as-is" problem, because I found - can't remember where - some brass and strings GIG files, using the mentioned London Philharmonia samples... -- Marcel Bonnet _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
