Re: Sibelius Software UK office shuts down

[David Kastrup]

Johan Vromans <address@hidden> writes:

> Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> It would be nice if someone from the sibelius team came out and gave
>> some hints about how the .sib format is structured.  We could be of
>> help by rescuing the years of work many users have stashed away as
>> .sib files.
>>
>> (I had a brief look at the file format years ago; the problem is that
>> they run some sort of compression scheme over their data)
>
> FWIW: Kirill Sidorov wrote a plug-in for Sibelius that exports the
> current score in some XML format. An additional tool (written in Ruby)
> postprocesses the XML and produces very useful LilyPond source.
>
> I use it often to convert Sibelius scores to LP. 
>
> Unfortunately, Kirill has had to change priorities but I can share my
> (slightly enhanced) version of the tools.

That makes my "copyright" red flags go up.  Can you check back with
Kirill and possible other authors under which conditions you are allowed
to "share"?  We'll likely also have to check the conditions for
distributing "Sibelius plugins" in general to see whether they can be
matched to basic free software distribution, in which case pointing at
those tools would be fine.

-- 
David Kastrup