Re: SMuFL

[Andrew Bernard]

Interesting valid points David.

But I was thinking that it although lilypond is open source, why can't I 
purchase _commercial_ music fonts to use with it, just as one does for 
print typesetting? I did not see the fonts as being tied to buying the 
engraving software, but a decoupled market. I can see music system 
vendors selling fonts just like Adobe does.

And why can't future Steinberg users incorporate lilypond fonts? After 
all, lilypond is open source and we are encouraging people to have it 
for free, work with it, extend it and nurture it. Or are the open source 
licensing restrictions that prevent lilypond components such as fonts 
being utilised by commercial software (I don't know)? And I think you 
can download Steinberg Bravura font presently for free, although I 
understand this is principally as a reference font implementation for SMuFL.

Andrew


On 10/08/13 6:30 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
> Do you really think that proprietary music system vendors will release 
> their fonts in a usable form under free licenses so that people can 
> forego buying their software and use LilyPond instead?