I am seeking to contact creators of amp models for GuitarML Proteus and Neural Amp Modeler in order to arrange permission to include models as factory-preinstalled models for plugins in the PiPedal and TooB Amp projects.
I am the author of
- the PiPedal Project -- an open-source guitar effects pedal for Raspberry Pim
- the TooB Amp Project - a open-source set of LV2 plugins with native interfaces for any linux platform that are included in PiPedal as a set of plugins to get users started.
The PiPedal and ToobAmp projects include two Machine-Learning-based lv2 plugins:
TooB Neural Amp Modeller: An LV2 plugin wrapper of Steven Atkins' NeuralAmpModelerCore library.
TooB ML: An LV2 plugin wrapper of Jatin Chowdry's RTNeural library.
TooB Neural Amp Modeler loads neural net amp models downloaded from ToneHunt.org, and TooB ML models are compatible with models for the GuitarML Proteus project, which also uses Jatin Chowdry's library.
Users can easily install models downloaded from either of these libraries. But, what I would like to do is include a couple of factory-installed models for each of these plugin in order to give an immediate sense of what these two very impressive ML libraries are capable of.
Although both of these projects use community-built and -uploaded guitar amp models, neither site specifies licensing terms or provides contact information for authors of the models that have been uploaded. I am therefore not able to include any of these downloadable models as factory-installed models, until I can verify that they are appropriately licensed.
The PiPedal project is scurpulously and careful provided under an MIT license, and only uses component that are similarly open-licensed -- MIT, BSD, or similar licenses. Absolutely no GPL or CC-BY-SA-NC licensed content or dependencies.[*]
To that end, I am seeking creators of models for RTNeural (GuitarML Proteus), and Neural Amp Modeler (ToneHunt.org) who can give me permission to use their models under a permissive non-viral license in the PiPedal project.
To include the models in the PiPedal project, I need models that are licensed under any license that's equivalently restrictive to CC-BY-SA, or MIT licenses. i.e. licenses that provide permission to copy with at most an explicit request for appropriate copyright/credit notifications.
The models will actually be included within the TooBAmp project, which is then in turn included in the PiPedal project.
Acknowledgements and copyright notices will be explicitly given for models that are included in pugin information dialogs, and debian package copyright notices and within the PiPedal About page legal notices section.
Regards,
Robin Davies
email: rerdavies of gmail.com
[*] Why not GPL licenses? I believe that free software should not infect derived projects with viral GPL licensing terms in perpetuity. Free software should be free like beer. Both the RTNeural project and Neural Amp Modeler project are generously licensed under MIT licenses. It seems monstrous to me that authors of effects plugins should use those very substantial libraries in plugins whose code for the very slim wrappers required infects all that follow with GPL licensing terms.
