Re: [Timidity-devel] timidity-devel shout out for main-developer

[LM <lm...@gm...>]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 12:40 PM Ozkan Sezer <se...@gm...> wrote:
> They are not actually stripped down, they are, as I said above, just
> forked from the old timidity-0.2i. All three of libtimidity, SDL_sound
> and SDL_mixer share the same code base timidity-wise.  SDL side just
> cannot upgrade to a fork from newer timidity++ code because of its GPL
> license (SDL needs zlib or compatible license.)

I'd been wondering how libtimidity compared to the main Timidity++
project.  For some reason, I was under the impression it was missing
some features and capabilities of the newer project.  I was looking
into experimenting with the build for Timidity++ and trying to split
it into more of a library with different interfaces at one point so I
could possibly create another front end.  Did not realize libtimidity
had a different license.  That's a really interesting point especially
for use with SDL.  I've seen some libraries with GPL licenses used
with some of the SDL libraries, but that does restrict the license of
a project using both.

Does anyone know the differences between what features Timidity++
supports and what libtimidity supports?  Does libtimidity handle mod
file formats and work with sf2 soundfonts similar to Timidity++?