[linux-audio-user] sf2 soundfont spec license

[Lee Revell]

On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 22:53 +0100, Christoph Eckert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> > If it is not open enough to take advantage of then is there
> > any truly open soundfont-like standard anywhere on the
> > planet?
> 
> for me it somehow looks as there's need to define a new, 
> absolutely free file format for sampling data.
> 
> Unfortunately, this would need lots of time and resources, and 
> as 'we' are not enough users, it wouldn't be spread widely 
> enough.

Why?  The soundfont spec is a standard.  Besides it's supported by
hardware wavetable synths so it's not going away.  There is zero
evidence that it's "not free enough".

Lee