MIDI does support non-Western music (was: Why can't i access /dev/dsp or /dev/snd on my XO)

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

imm wrote:
> Ed Borasky was suggesting scala as a useful thing to have working in  
> this regard...
> 
> Now, that got me wondering - I know it's freeware, but I'd never seen  
> the source anywhere. Have I missed it somewhere? That is, is it open  
> source?
> I'd always (somehow) assumed it was closed source.
> And if it is closed source (albeit freeware) does that put it "out of  
> bounds" for this programme?
> 
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It is free but I believe the author has placed a non-commercial 
restriction on it, which makes it incompatible with a number of open 
licenses. It is written in Ada, and if you ask the author for the 
source, he will usually send it to you. Once I get it running on my 
AMD64, I'm planning to see if he'd be willing to go with a more 
compatible license. The web site is 
http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/scala/ if you want to write to him.