Re: creating open source sample libs. (Was: Re: Experiment One - For Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra. Music and a short review of the sample library)

[Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:49 AM, Nils <list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Am Wed, 15 Aug 2012 23:22:22 -0300
schrieb Marcel Bonnet <marcelbonnet@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi, there.
> What about these samples
> http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/thesoundexchange/make_music/samples/library/
> ?
>
> "License: You are free to use these samples as you wish, including
> releasing them as part of a commercial work. The only restriction is
> they must not be sold or made available 'as is' (i.e. as sampler or as
> a sampler instrument)."
>
> I'm just starting with them. I think any linuxsampler user probably
> knows, but what do you guys think of these samples? Does it meet the
> tech and license requirements? My first bad impression is about the
> sample format, they are all distributed as MP3 - I would consider a
> non compressed format instead.

Hello Marcel,

the License means that you can't compile the samples in soundfont,
gigastudio, kontakt etc. file. I guess the intention of the license is
to prevent .sfz as well, although technically you could argue that the
samples are still "as is" in sfz format, there is only a meta file
added. But the same is true if you compress them and include metadata,
so the case could be made for any sampler format.

if you really wanted to set things up so that many people could use them, you could distribute them as-is with a script that generated an sfz, or as a script that fetched them from the original site, and then generated an sfz. the license wording though is really non-sensical, and in fact as it is written, my interpretation would be "you cannot give these to anyone else in the form in which you have received them ("as-is") - if you distribute them it must be free of charge and in some OTHER format".

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