[LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

Arnold Krille arnold at arnoldarts.de
Tue Aug 4 10:04:18 UTC 2009


On Tuesday 04 August 2009 11:21:34 Chris Cannam wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Frank Barknecht<fbar at footils.org> wrote:
> > Hallo,
> >
> > Arnold Krille hat gesagt: // Arnold Krille wrote:
> >> Please be aware that (last time I checked) the gpl doesn't talk about
> >> giving access to all gpl-code you use. Only if you change something you
> >> have to make your changes available for free.
> > Huh? I think, you're confusing something here. Is it too early in the
> > morning?
> Arnold's explanation is approximately true of the LGPL rather than the
> GPL, so perhaps that's the confusion here.  The LADSPA header is
> indeed under the LGPL, but the plugins in question are generally under
> the GPL -- so terms and conditions of our normal flamefests apply.

Ah, okay. Mixed these two up in my head.
That the problem when your day-to-day-work uses LGPL for libs and GPL for 
apps...

Good to have peer-reviewers that are checking for wrong facts written before 
the first coffee. :-)

Arnold


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