No. 371

Make Finale Source Code Available

IWBNI all the source code for Finale were made available to the public. As it is now, the source code for Finale is not available to the public.

This feature would allow developers who are not employed by Coda Music Technology, Inc. to contribute bug fixes and enhancements to the Finale source code base. Also, developers could create versions of Finale that would run on other operating system platforms such as Linux.

This could be implemented by making all source code for Finale available for download over the internet.

For examples of music notation software programs for which the source code is available, see:

LilyPond - The GNU Project Music Typesetter

MusiXTeX / MusicTeX / MuTeX

Common Music Notation (CMN)

The Mup Music Publication Program



Created: March 6, 2000
Last Updated: March 6, 2000
Version: Finale 2000b