Re: [fluid-dev] Some Questions About FluidSynth MIDI Player

2008-09-30 Thread Bernat Arlandis i Mañó
Zegelin Peter escrigué: I must admit reading most of those license makes my eyes glaze over and I can never really figure them out. If I use FluidSynth it would be as a shared library so I think I would be covered (but I'd better have another look). As for making changes and releasing them back

Re: [fluid-dev] Some Questions About FluidSynth MIDI Player

2008-09-30 Thread Zegelin Peter
Thanks for the heads up on the licenses Josh. I must admit reading most of those license makes my eyes glaze over and I can never really figure them out. If I use FluidSynth it would be as a shared library so I think I would be covered (but I'd better have another look). As for making chang

Re: [fluid-dev] Some Questions About FluidSynth MIDI Player

2008-09-30 Thread Josh Green
Hey Julien, Just some more clarity on licenses.. First, FluidSynth is under the LGPL. Indeed the GPL does not forbid incorporation in a commercial product, as long as the source code is not linked or included directly in another program (i.e., it is used as a stand alone application). The LPGL

Re: [fluid-dev] Some Questions About FluidSynth MIDI Player

2008-09-30 Thread Josh Green
Hello Peter, I just wanted to make sure you are aware of some of the implications of using software under the LGPL, like FluidSynth, in a commercial application. Since some of these things are overlooked at times. The LGPL allows commercial applications to link to it as a shared library. However

Re: [fluid-dev] Some Questions About FluidSynth MIDI Player

2008-09-30 Thread Josh Green
Hello Peter, My guess is that the FluidSynth MIDI file playback sequencer probably wont live up to your expectations. I'm not real familiar with the internals of it myself, since I'm not the original author, only a mere maintainer ;) I could likely know the answers to these questions fairly quic

Re: [fluid-dev] Some Questions About FluidSynth MIDI Player

2008-09-30 Thread Julien Claassen
Hi! I think fluidsynth is GPL as well. and if I'm not wrong - having had and heard endless discussions on linux audio users and developers mailinglists - GPL does not forbid incorporation in a commercial product. that why LinuxSampler isn't exactly GPL, because Benno Senona has his own commer

Re: [fluid-dev] Some Questions About FluidSynth MIDI Player

2008-09-30 Thread Zegelin Peter
Thanks for your reply Julien, I've had a bit of a look at Timidity but unfortunately it is GPL and can't be used in a commercial app. I've had a bit of a closer look at the fluidsynth midi player and it looks like it will require quite a bit of modification to work how I need it. I may end

Re: [fluid-dev] Some Questions About FluidSynth MIDI Player

2008-09-30 Thread Julien Claassen
Hi! I don't know too much about fluidsynth's inner workings. But this: fluidsynth is mainly intended for live playing or simple midifile playback. Surely you could fool around, if you know bit about programming and MIDI, but I'm not sure, if that's what you want. I have - on more than one o

[fluid-dev] Some Questions About FluidSynth MIDI Player

2008-09-30 Thread Zegelin Peter
Hi, I have been playing with fluidSynth under MacOSX for a few days now and am seriously thinking that it may be suitable for a new commercial product of mine. However I do have a couple of questions, mainly to do with the midi player part of fluidSynth. 1. I really need to be able to ad