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When we started developing LilyPond, we were still studying at the university. We were interested in music notation, not as publishers or musicians, but as students and scientists. We wanted to figure to what extent formatting sheet music could be automated. Back then GUIs were not as ubiquitous as they are today, and we were immersed in the UNIX operating system, where it is very common to use compilers to achieve computing tasks, so our computerized music engraving experiment took on the form of a compiler.

You can freely use, modify and redistribute LilyPond. This choice was also motivated by our academic background. In the scientific community it has always been a tradition to share knowledge, also if that knowledge was packaged as software. One of the most visible groups that stimulated this philosophy, was the Free Software Foundation, whose popular GNU project aimed to replace closed and proprietary computing solutions with free (as in "Libre") variants. We jumped on that bandwagon, and released LilyPond as free software. That is the reason that you can get LilyPond at no cost and without any strings attached.

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