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On 16/08/12 19:35, Paul Davis wrote:

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> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:49 AM, Nils  wrote:

>

>> Am Wed, 15 Aug 2012 23:22:22 -0300

>> schrieb Marcel Bonnet:

>>

>>> Hi, there.

>>> What about these samples

>>>

>> http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/thesoundexchange/make_music/samples/librar...

>>> ?

>>>

>>> "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)."

>>

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>> 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".

It seems to me the license is trying to say you can use the samples to make a

piece of music with, that the samples can be used to make commercial music etc,

and that that work can be distributed ... but they cannot be distributed as a

full set of samples.
So ... it is saying you can use the individual samples as notes in a work, (i.e.

in some other format than a sample collection) but you can't distribute them as

a set of samples, (i.e. in the form you got them). It makes sense, it seems the

author does not want them distributed as a sample library. It may not be clear

or unambiguous legally but the intention seems clear.
Simon

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