Re: engraving comparisons and other "promotional" materials

[Janek Warchoł]

2013/12/7 Carl Peterson <address@hidden>:
> On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Janek Warchoł <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>> 2013/12/6 Carl Peterson <address@hidden>:
>> > In particular, I would say that anything used should be incontrovertibly
>> > in
>> > the public domain (i.e., the older, the better).
>>
>> This is just impossible with comparisons like these ones - the
>> finale/sibelius engravings cannot be old enough to be in public
>> domain.
>
> Indeed. However, if someone can make new engravings from music that is in
> public domain and release or license them to the project, that's a different
> story.

That'd be nice, but:
- virtually noone has time to do this
- there's actually a point in making a comparison with publicly
available scores: "compare LilyPond output to what you can get from a
publisher"