Bug#858281: hydrogen: Please remove GMkit content from the package due to license

[Jaromír Mikeš]

2017-03-22 8:14 GMT+01:00 Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes at gmail.com>:

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> 2017-03-20 19:03 GMT+01:00 Roberto <roberto at zenvoid.org>:
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> Hi Roberto,
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> Package: hydrogen
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> Content under directory data/drumkits/GMkit is derived from non-free
>> sources (seems to be taken from Roland XV-5080 internal sound libraries).
>> The file data/drumkits/GMkit/drumkit.xml only says "undefined license".
>>
>> Manufacturers of hardware synthesizers sometimes don't say which license
>> applies to their bundled sample libraries, but they are certainly not in
>> the public domain. They typically allow commercial content created with
>> them, without paying royalties, but they could complain if someone creates
>> a competing product derived from their sounds. A software synthesizer can
>> be seen as a competing product (there are precedents of this by Roland
>> Corporation in particular).
>>
>> Moreover, please consider documenting all files under "data" directory in
>> debian/copyright, it will make easier to spot this issues, I've been using
>> the Roland samples in this package for years without knowing.
>>
>
> Thank you for reporting this issue.
> Actually it is quite unfortunate ... If we would remove GMkit we would
> loose tutorial demo songs.
> Is there any alternative for GMkit around with friendly license
> which we could recommend to upstream author as replacement for GMkit?
>

Just for record ...
I have been discussing this issue with upstream developers ... GMkit should
be replaced
by something with friendly license. Hopefully in next release.

mira
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