ETF conversion

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> I bought a copy of Finale about 7 years ago. Because I bought
> it, they gave me a license to download and read the documentation
> for ETF format, which I did. IIRC, you actually needed to put
> in a password on their web site in order to access the docs.
> I e-mailed them to ask if they thought it was legal for me to
> show the docs to other people, and they never replied. I don't
> remember whether there was a EULA.
> 
> I never intend to use Finale again, so if there's a lilypond
> developer who's interested in working more on the ETF-ly
> converter, I'd be happy to donate my copy of Finale, which
> would then presumably make it legal for that person to use
> the ETF docs. (Well, at least that's my interpretation under
> the doctrine of first sale in U.S. copyright law, but IANAL,
> and I guess most of the lilypond developers are in Europe.
> I also haven't looked carefully to see if they're claiming
> it's a trade secret or something.) The ETF documentation was
> actually quite complete and well written.

this would not perchance be the same as

  http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen/lily-devel/etfspec.pdf

?

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