18 Sep
2008
18 Sep
'08
3:18 p.m.
2008/9/18 Anders Dahnielson <anders(a)dahnielson.com>om>:
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 15:12, Emanuel Rumpf <xbran(a)web.de> wrote:
Thank you for the Information, Anders Dahnielson.
So the the specification is available, that's good.
Searching the web, I find this site:
http://www.cakewalk.com/DevXchange/sfz.asp
At the bottom I find:
"Copyright (c) 2008 by Cakewalk, Inc. All rights reserved."
There is no further license information, but a note at the top:
"Soundware, software and hardware developers can create, use and
distribute the sfz format files for free, for either free or
commercial applications."
We are allowed to use *files* created in the format for "free" or
"commercial" applications
(with no further info, what "free" / "commercial" means in this
context)
That is a kind of vague freedom.
But the specification itself is still unfree (as in speach),
scince I'm not allowed to spread it reproduce it, give it to friends.
Regards,
Emanuel
2008/9/18 Anders Dahnielson <anders(a)dahnielson.com>om>:
The SFZ 2.0 is currently only available in the book 'Cakewalk Synthesizers'
by Simon Cann. Note that I'm not talking free as in beer here.
I've tried to publish some errata for the 1.0 spec regarding stuff that I've
come across:
https://bb.linuxsampler.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=186
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 14:28, Emanuel Rumpf <xbran(a)web.de> wrote:
If it is free, where do I get that specification 2.0 ?
The last time I've had a look at it, the publication was out of date
and incomplete.
The sad truth is: There currently is no real open patch specification.
(And if there was one, it would take some time to become spread and
accepted.)
That's not true. SFZ is an open and free specification. I know, I'm
working
on an implementation of the SFZ 2.0 spec.