Subject: Re: [Musix-users] USB Midisport (license doubt)

Sat Jun 24 02:05:28 CEST 2006

From: Richard Stallman <rms at gnu.org>
To: marcospcmusica at gmail.com
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        Marcos Guglielmetti on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 23:19:35 +0200)
Subject: Re: [Musix-users] USB Midisport (license doubt)
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Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:14:38 -0400
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Would you like to implement, on fsf.org, a list of the USB MIDI
interfaces which work with free software, and the ones that don't?  We
would like that.  If you want to do it, please write to johns at gnu.org
and he can accept the info from you.

    > Is there any chance we could convince Midiman 
    > to change this policy?

    Well... we must try:

If we are going to do this, the next step is to figure out who to talk
to, and that person's addresses or phone numbers, and what language to
talk with him in.

Then we need someone who speaks that language, to call that person.

Want to start?

Another idea:

If the non-free code is available in source code, someone could study
that code, get the ideas out of it, and write a completely different
program (not copying any details, of course, since those are
copyrighted).  This new program could be free.

-- 
Marcos Guglielmetti  
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