Well, in an unexpected turn of events, I was able to get ahold of Marc Gminder directly and he's given us permission to keep these files. I've asked for clarification on the scope of this permission (e.g. license) so that we can inform the various Linux distributions of this.
is there a way to find which LMMS version was used to save a LMMS file if you don't have that information? Not easily. Currently, you can upload it to our LSP and it will tell you. https://lmms.io/lsp/ Can we open it with a text editor or something to find the version? Generally no, the .mmpz files...
Sorry for the lack of update on this topic... I emailed Toby (the original author of LMMS) and this is what he said... Hi Tres, unfortunately I don't remember where I took the samples from, likely extracted from some old songs from the 90th. So you'd better drop it and/or replace it appropriately. B...
Bandcamp does make money when people pay > $0 for the album. This happens on occasion. We also receive plenty of donations to cover our costs, so the money isn't really a big motivator here. Another issue is that we don't entirely own the content. I'm not sure how this works for compilation albums. ...
I see... is this the case that the server transferred from Network Redux to Digital Ocean?
Yes, we've updated the Announcements accordingly. :)

https://www.lmms.io/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=33618
LMMS is proud to announce that website hosting is now sponsored by DigitalOcean . DigitalOcean offers open source projects hosting credits that can be applied to VPS server droplets. Tracking: https://github.com/LMMS/lmms.io/issues/317 Quoting @liushuyu: I think LSP and forum should now load faster ...
The stable Carla (previously known as Carla-Git) should work. If not, feel free to file a bug mentioning your OS and how you obtained Carla. Freel free to tag me, @tresf, in your post. :)

https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/issues/new
Some Linux distributions -- such as Fedora -- have already taken action on these samples and removed them from the LMMS distribution for their platform. We too -- the upstream LMMS developers -- have a long term plan to remove all bundled samples that we're not sure of the origins of. Most samples w...
This article has been published to our Troubleshooting guide on GitHub.

https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/wiki/Troub ... e-override

If you have steps for Linux, feel free to edit the wiki as needed.
It may be possible. The codebase seems to be written mostly in C++, which is good, although I cannot determine the language that's used for the UI. If it were Qt, it would stand a better chance as we already bundle that. I would recommend starting a thread for it on our bug tracker (https://github.c...