Fons,
Thank you for your words. My thoughts on the matter are much the same as
yours, but I hadn't managed to come up with the words to express them on
my own. The questions you ask Paul are the questions I would like to
have asked on my own if only I had been able to formulate them.
-Eric Rz.
Fons Adriaensen wrote:
 On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 05:22:19AM -0300, Juan Linietsky wrote:
  On Wednesday 16 July 2003 22:21, Nasca Paul
wrote: 
  > Hi.
 > I released ZynAddSubFX 1.4.2 
  I can understand about metal lyrics being
anti-christian, we've seen
 that countless times in groups from megadeth to iron maiden,
 But I have no idea why "New Age" music is considered against god, since
 it has nothing to do with the "New Age" spiritual/religious movement (which
 is definitely anti-christian). Nowadays people calls "New Age" music to
 anything ambient, soft jazz, lounge, soundtraquesque, etc. Even people
 like vangelis gets his music called "New Age" and he never intended it
 to be associated with that name. As far as I know, and for historical reasons,
 the idea of  the term comes from the idea of ritualistic music based on
 sustained voices, beats and nature elements inspired on indian tranditions
 and that kind of things, but was rapidly taken by musicans to call anything
 nature/ambient and out of the context of religion. Maybe the site should
 specify "Anti christian ritual music"? 
 This may be off-topic, but not entirely. When the author of an audio
 app requests users not to use his work to produce music that is anti-
 Christian, I wonder what is meant by this. If this were a commercial
 app, I wouldn't bother about it for a second. But since it is open
 source and just given to me, I do.
 All major religions share the same ethical values - of love, respect for
 human life (and to varying degrees, other forms of life), honesty, etc.
 And I think all of this can be subscribed to by most of humanity.
 With the possible exception of Buddhism, which in all its variations
 emphasises personal responsability and offers little else to blame for
 your misery, all of them also offer a scala of tendencies ranging from
 fundamentalist (adherence to rules) to spriritual (adherence to principles).
 Where they differ is in how they try to explain things - creation, the
 choice of moral values, etc.
 So what does it mean to be 'anti-Christian'? Personally, I'll be anti-X
 when either X is harmful to society, or when X propagates intolerance to
 other ways of thinking.
 So my question to the author if ZynAddSubFX is this: if I use your work
 to produce Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist or other religious music (all very
 beautiful and elevating the spirit), do you object ? When I play Mozart's
 freemason's mourning music which can bring tears to my eyes, do you mind ?
 If yes, I will respect this and not use your work at all.
 If no, maybe you should consider rephrasing your conditions.
 With kind regards,
 FA