Re: Lilypond \include statements and the GPL

[Janek Warchoł]

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 03/29/2013 11:26 AM, Janek Warchoł wrote:
>> An example came to my mind: imagine someone typesetting a score and
>> using one (just one) function from OLLib.  Distributing whole OLLib
>> together with the score just to have this one functionality would be
>> inconvenient, so he'd like to actually paste this function from OLLib
>> into his file.  Can he do this?  I think that such usage should be
>> permitted (and not resulting in the final score being copylefted), as
>> long as the function is clearly marked and attributed.
>
> Point of clarification: this isn't about the "final score" in the sense of the
> PDF output.  This is about what are his obligations if he chooses to 
> distribute
> the .ly source file of his score.

Yes, that's what i had in mind - "resulting final lilypond file".
Sorry for being imprecise.

janek