Re: [Lmms-users] [LMMS-devel] Fwd: LMMS customization project

[mifthbeat <pau...@ma...>]

Why do you need to re-brand lmms? Just sell your tutorials and use lmms like 
some professionals make it with blender(www.blender.org). lmms is an open 
source project for everyone and you can use it for commercial purposes.

On Tuesday 19 May 2009 11:56:34 Tobias Doerffel wrote:

> Hi Tobias,
> My name is Aaron Lovelace and I am working on a project involving LMMS, as
> you have discovered. I understand you have been in touch with the developer
> who I have working on the project.
>
> First of all, I want to say thank you for making such an awesome piece of
> software. I am a musician (not amazing, but I play for fun anyway) and have
> been using it a lot in the past few weeks since I discovered it... it is
> extremely addictive!
>
> As for my project, I was planning to use a re-branded version of LMMS as
> part of a product I am developing. Here are the details:
>
> I was originally planning to sell hip-hop beat and instrumental production
> tutorials (video screencasts) by themselves, but thought that offering a
> fully-featured sequencing system as part of the package would make the
> offer more attractive to beginners. I would like to re-brand LMMS as "Beat
> Machine Pro" as I think it is a name that is more marketable to the hip hop
> crowd.
>
> I don't plan on violating the GPL license and will make the source
> available for download. One question about this though: Does the source
> need to be available to anyone who visits the website, or can it be
> available just to customers? I can go either way, but I would appreciate
> the clarification.
>
> Please let me know if you have comments or questions. Thanks for your help!
>
> Best,
>
> Aaron Lovelace