[linux-audio-dev] OpenSoundControl. WAS: Modular synths of the world, unite and take over :-)

Steve Harris S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Mar 19 05:32:59 UTC 2003


On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:33:40 +0100, Martin Voelkel wrote:
> Martin Voelkel writes:
> > i could not found any hint about the license of matt wright's library,
> > he always says "OpenSource", which is not necessarily "free".  will
> > ask him about this.
> 
> o.k. each file says:
> 
> >>
> Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and distribute modified versions
> of this software and its documentation without fee and without a signed
> licensing agreement, is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright
> notice, this paragraph and the following two paragraphs appear in all copies,
> modifications, and distributions.
> <<
> 
> could this be treated as "free"?  don't know enough about those
> licensing issues...

I think that the "without fee" part causes problems with the GPL, but
IANAL.

- Steve



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