[LAD] Impro-Visor packages now on SF

bluef bluefuture at email.it
Sun Jul 26 11:00:39 UTC 2009


Sampo this is not true.

The license is in every source file:

This Java Class is part of the jMusic API version 1.5, March 2004.>

Copyright (C) 2000 Andrew Sorensen & Andrew Brown

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or any
later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

> Yep. That makes a lot of sense. Is the jmusic in question this one
> http://jmusic.ci.qut.edu.au/ ?
> 
> It seems this software is treading deep in unlicensed waters. I can't
> find any notion of the license under which jmusic is distributed. If one
> googles the site for "license" (http://www.google.com/search?q=site%
> 3Ajmusic.ci.qut.edu.au+license ) you can find three hits, all about GPL
> on _examples_ using jmusic. The source distribution of jmusic has no
> licensing information at all. They might be in violation of sourceforges
> user agreements.
> 
> Jeeze. This makes one wonder how people are not more careful about how
> they release their work?
> 
> 
>  Sampo
> 
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