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From: | Urs Liska |
Subject: | Re: GSoC applications |
Date: | Tue, 9 Jan 2018 22:32:29 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.2 |
Am 09.01.2018 um 22:26 schrieb David Kastrup:
Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:Hi Giampaolo, Am 09.01.2018 um 16:58 schrieb Giampaolo Orrigo:I definitely have an idea, although I don’t have the necessary programming knowledge to mentor, although I have the scholarly knowledge. I think the community would greatly benefit if LilyPond had full support for both white and black mensural notation.That sounds like a great idea.There was an effort done some time ago but it was abandoned and the original author seems unreachable.Indeed, such things happen (you are talking about Lukas, right?). Also the initial developer of the lilyJAZZ font has mysteriously become invisible over time ...Yes and no. He decided to revert to monetizing his font creation efforts.
Then you seem to know more than I do.Or are you talking about Abraham Lee - who has *not* created LilyJAZZ but lots of other fonts?
While I cannot blame him, the intersection of the sets of successful marketers and successful programmers is rather small. As a result, most attempts to go proprietary on single-person efforts fail in the monetary regard and have not even a generally available advance of the arts to show as a result. More often than not, the people attempting to monetize an effort were already spending all the time they could on that effort, and making the leap to _drop_ other sources of income in order to be able to afford investing more time, and more importantly, more creative energy, does rarely work out. I don't think that we'll see that kind of approach succeed until government steps in for more than defining ridiculous ranges of copyright. Copyright associations are usually _way_ beyond sanity in their conditions for both consumer and creator.
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