The common practise is to distribute the instrument code freely, and to credit whoever wrote the instrument you've copied/modified.
There have been no legal licence imposed on Csound instruments AFAIK in the past,
but as the community (us) gains awareness of the legal issues,
it seems to evolve into GPL as the norm for publishing csound instruments.
As earlier, the music you make with those instruments is regarded as a separate work,
not legally connected to the code in any way.

I'm not an expert on these issues,
but this is my impression of how it works.

best
Oeyvind

>
> From: gerald wenzel 
> Organization: @pplication specific
> To: csoundtekno-FSfMF+BgZTcXWF+eFR7m5Q@public.gmane.org
> Subject: [CsndTek] posting other people's code
> Reply-To: csoundtekno-FSfMF+BgZTcXWF+eFR7m5Q@public.gmane.org
>
> I've been composing trax lately that solely use csound.  I'm not much of
> an instrument designer, and therefore, I like using instruments that
> other people have designed.  I'm going to make these trax available for
> download from my website.  The trax can be rendered by compiling the orc
> and sco files.  I'd like to make the orc and sco files available on my
> website as well.  However, I'm not sure if it's okay to put other
> people's code on my website.  For example, I just finished a track that
> uses a kick drum that Hans Mikelson created.  If I post his code on my
> website I'll gladly credit him in the comments of the orc file.
>
> Are there copyright isssues involved with distributing instruments
> created by others, especially instruments that are on the csound book
> cdroms?  I don't plan on selling the code.  It will be available for
> free download.  However, I do licence *the music* to indy labels and any
> other commercial interests that present themselves.
>
> --
> gerald wenzel
> @pplication specific - music is necessary
> http://apspec.com
>
>

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