5 Please note that this all happened when I wasn't around yet. If you
6 think that I am a biased, unfair, predisposed hypocrite, then don't
7 bother flaming me; I already know that.
9 The GNU Music project is a project which aims to create free software
10 for music printing and composing. It was started in november '92 by a
11 core team of four members (Bryan Ford <baford@cs.utah.edu>, David Linn
12 <drl@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>, Francois Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>,
13 Neil Jerram <nj104@cus.cam.ac.uk>) and in January '93 Robert Strandh
14 <Robert.Strandh@labri.u-bordeaux.fr> joined.
16 After serious disputes with Robert Strandh and the FSF staff in '94,
17 the project core team got divided. The development efforts of GMP
20 Independently, I (HWN) started LilyPond. When I showed it to
21 RMS, he was very enthousiastic about having LilyPond in the GNU
22 project. I subsequently learned about the GNU Music project, and
25 What was left of the GMP (Robert Strandh) and us, LilyPond people,
26 agreed that cooperation would be desirable. Although merging of both
27 efforts was and is technically infeasible, we did decide that LilyPond
28 should also be part of the GNU Music project.
30 Only later did I discover the previous quarrels about the GMP-"take
31 1". To show that I am aware of the history, and to make sure nobody
32 gets me wrong or is angry at me because I stole a project or a
33 project's name, I wrote this note.
35 In summary, LilyPond is now the only substantial embodiment of the GNU
36 Music Project, and it is part of the GNU project.
38 For completeness' sake, I will mention the other efforts here:
42 =item G Sharp, http://dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/~strandh/Gsharp
44 An alpha version notation editor for X in Scheme. Source available on
45 request from Robert Strandh.
49 An alpha version of a music editing system with Musictex
50 output. Pretest versions of GNU Music (v0.3) can still be obtained from
55 This history note is probably biased in some way, because I wrote it.
56 The rest of this document is also entirely mine, and is not meant to
57 reflect anyone else's opinion.