The MuseScore application provides access to sheet music, including legitimate access to sheet music copyrighted and owned by large groups such as Disney. What’s MuseScore?īefore we can talk about how Muse Group got itself in trouble, we have to talk about what the MuseScore app itself is-and is not.

One such developer, Wenzheng Tang (' Xmader' on GitHub) went considerably further than modifying the app-he also created separate apps designed to bypass MuseScore Pro subscription fees.Īfter thoroughly reviewing the public comments made by both sides at GitHub, Ars spoke at length with Muse Group Head of Strategy Daniel Ray-known on GitHub by the moniker 'workedintheory'-to get to the bottom of the controversy. The MuseScore app itself is licensed GPLv3, which gives developers the right to fork its source and modify it. This time, the controversy isn't over Audacity-it's about MuseScore, an open source application that allows musicians to create, share, and download musical scores (especially, but not only, in the form of sheet music). Further Reading No, open source Audacity audio editor is not “spyware”Muse Group-owner of the popular audio-editing app Audacity-is in hot water with the open source community again.

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