Re: [AD] Allegro 5 MIDI addon

[Tobias H. <tob...@gm...>]

Am 12.10.2012 14:29, schrieb Peter Wang:
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:45:59 +0200, Tobias Hansen <tob...@gm...> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm thinking about writing a MIDI addon for Allegro 5. Since my
>> intention is to get it included into Allegro, I check with you first.
>>
>> I think it's a good choice to use libfluidsynth. The Allegro addon has
>> to do the same things with libfluidsynth as Alure [1], so I intend to
>> reuse some of Alures code. That means the addon would be partly under
>> Alures license X11/MIT. There are free soundfonts available (I don't
>> mean that Allegro must include one, but it's good to know). A reasonable
>> one is [2] I think. It's GPL licensed. If you want to test
>> libfluidsynth, you can use the alurestream program bundled with alure:
>>
>> FLUID_SOUNDFONT=<soundfont> alurestream <midifile>
> 
> You might also want to look at the code I wrote:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/p/dunedynasty/dunedynasty/ci/f5a884821842ea9b414515f2742fccf4c45658a0/tree/src/audio/allegro_midi.cpp
> 
> There's not much to it, honestly.
> 
>> My questions are:
>>
>> 1. Is that something you would like to include into Allegro 5 if it
>> works well? Do you see any problems with my plan?
> 
> I'm thinking not, because fluidsynth is LGPL licensed.  Allegro has has
> traditionally shyed away from depending on GPL/LGPL licensed libraries
> due to complications in distribution.
> 
> Peter
> 

Ok, thanks. Your allegro_midi.cpp is GPL licensed though. Would you put
that file under LGPL or less restrictive?

Best,
Tobias