Copyright Status of Data directory not indicated.

[afarlie]

There is a general license for the code of the program.

However, the licensing for the assets (ie samples/presets) in the Data directory isn't clearly indicated.

This means I can't actually use the samples to actually make anything I'd like to share, because the policy on a third party site requires clear licensing for anything used.

Perhaps someone could add a list detailing or clarifying the licenses for the samples and presets? Thanks.

[SecondFlight]

From Wrillic on Discord in #assets on June 15, 2018:

All the assets (samples/presets) are CC0

[afarlie]

Thanks, Okay so it wouldn't be too hard to add a copy of that license in the data folder?

(Aside: Do you have a repository for additional shared assets? Like instrument patches people work out in the various synths)

I've also asked the ZynAddSubFX project about making the licenses for their 'supplied patch/preset' list license more explicit, as I found a VERY useful sound FX noise by massively de-pitching a recently added one.

[afarlie]

Speaking of which, some of the ZynAddSubFX Instrument Patches aren't necessarily CC-0. This is based on the feedback I got in relation to : zynaddsubfx/instruments#2 and an examination of some of the files in that repository. I would strongly hint at having a discussion with them about what licenses are used for their Instrument Banks)

[lukas-w]

@SecondFlight This is not true. That statement by Wrillic refers to the https://github.com/LMMS/assets repository, which as far as I know has been created partly because of the unclear licensing status of the existing samples.

[SecondFlight]

Alright, thanks for the clarification @lukas-w

[tresf]

@afarlie as indicated, we're working on it. Even some of those promised CC0 aren't, and we had to deal with that here: LMMS/assets#15.

We need a lot of help with our samples, presets and projects and help is welcome. This bug report is really a duplicate of the entire assets repo linked above. Closing as a duplicate. Thanks and sorry bout this vagueness.