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LilyJAZZ-README: Update to clarify licensing situation
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This folder should hold the code to use the lilyJAZZ fonts/settings.
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As the original developer Torsten Hämmerle seems to be unavailable
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we decided to offer this space to access and improve the great
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LilyPond add-on.
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## LilyJAZZ
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In March 2013 Torsten Hämmerle sent a wonderful LilyPond add-on to the
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lilypond-user mailing list: **LilyJAZZ**. Read his original announcement in [this
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message](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-03/msg00647.html).
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LilyJAZZ offers a JAZZ Music and a JAZZ Text font along with tools to
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integrate them in LilyPond.
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#### Disclaimer:
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The licensing status of this material isn't completely clear. The original developer
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isn't available and can't be contacted through email or phone anymore.
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Therefore we can only rely on his original post where he states that
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> the whole LilyJAZZ issue shall be open and free (just like Lilypond), so I first
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had to create my own fonts in order to become independent of commercial ones.
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We consider this as a release under the same licensing model as LilyPond (i.e. GPL).
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"shall be" is surely not meant as a temporal expression but as an expression of intent
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(it is probably inexactly translated from the German "soll sein", not from "wird sein").
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Torsten surely meant that having created the fonts was the prerequisite for being
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able to release it under a free license, and not that making the material available
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in that message was the prerequisite to release it "open and free" at some undetermined
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point in future.
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#### Usage:
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To use **LilyJAZZ** you have to [please continue ...]

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