On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: > Eric, > > On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 02:32:38AM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > > > I hope you're fine, it's been a long time since we met in Barcelona, > > years ago... Are you still there ? > > > I'm dealing with bug #385665 and your help would be greatly > > appreciated. > > > Someon is requesting to move fluidsynth from main/ to contrib/ arguing > > that 'fluidsynth needs non-free midi sound bank to function'. The > > argument really is that there aren't free SF2 files available out > > there. I could found lots of them but it wasn't sufficient apparently. > > Sorry, are you saying that you *did* finds lots of free SF2 files? This > information isn't in the bug report. If there are freely available SF2 > files, can you please point us to one?
Hi Eric and Steve, I have read through the bug-report and I have to admit that I am surprised. Swami is a soundfile editor and therefore it can be used to generate soundfonts, so in Steve's word a "cut-and-dried" case. There are free soundfonts out there, e.g. http://www.sseyo.com/showcase/demos/soundfonts.html but I have no idea what free means to sseyo. There are also soundfonts at freepats: http://freepats.opensrc.org/sf2/rhodes/, for example. I don't have time to check for licenses, but instead of trying to move fluidsynth into contrib it might be worth to talk about how to include some soundfonts in Debian. I think this bug has no justification and should be closed. Günter
