[linux-audio-dev] Envelopes

[james at dis-dot-dat.net]

On Thu, 29 Jun, 2006 at 09:57PM -0400, Stephen Sinclair spake thus:
> >> check out the STK.
> >
> >I don't think this is free software, btw.
> 
> They aren't too specific about the license but I think it's "public domain".
> I should ask Gary to be more clear about that on the site...
> 
> Anyways, it is included as a package in Debian (libstk0c2a), and they
> are one of the best judges on software Freedom I know of.

Hmm.  No Gentoo ebuild in the normal tree, though.  Unusual for Debian
to have something Gentoo doesn't.  

> Here's the copyright file:
> 
> http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/s/stk/stk_4.2.0-9/libstk0c2a.copyright
> 
> Debianized by Guenter Geiger (Debian/GNU) <geiger at debian.org> on
> Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:55:08 +0200.
> 
> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/stk/
> 
> Authors: Perry Cook and Gary P. Scavone
> 
> Copyright:
> This software was designed and created to be made publicly available
> for free,  primarily for academic purposes, so if you use it, pass it
> on with this
> documentation, and for free.
> 
> But you're right in the sense that they aren't specific in their
> license about derivative works, which is an important part of the GPL.
> 
> Steve
>