[LAD] LS License (was: LV2 in the Reaper sequencer)

[Christian Schoenebeck]

Am Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008 13:39:20 schrieb Arnold Krille:
> Yes, there is a very valid reason for you not to do so: Adding something to
> the gpl _and_ still calling it the gpl is not valid. So in fact LS has _no_
> valid license. The only thing protecting it is the natural(?) copyrights of
> the ones who invented it.
> No one else is allowed to copy or distribute (or maybe even use) it without
> there explicit statement. You can give that statement by publishing it
> under a certain license but the gpl itself states that making additions to
> it and still call it gpl is invalidating it...
>
> So please(!) LS-devs, give LS a valid license, be it open source or not,
> free as in defined-by-the-fsf or not.

Sorry for the ones who heard this thousand times before, but once again:

Arnold, a license is just a declaration of intention. As a copyright holder 
you can define any license terms you want, as long as it doesn't break 
anyones rights or laws. And we do not break the FSF's rights, nor any law I 
know of (at least not in our part of the world). In fact we've been in touch 
with various people from the FSF for several months, but haven't found a 
better solution so far.

I do agree though that the license wording is suboptimal, and we're certainly 
fixing it on the mid / long term, but as said, we don't have a better 
solution yet and the current license terms are valid.

CU
Christian