[LAD] Impro-visor source code and fork

[Ralf Mardorf]

Dave Phillips wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
>   
>> On Sunday 19 July 2009, laseray at gmail.com wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> If anybody is interested, I have decompiled the latest Impro-visor version,
>>> which has only been provide as a binary (in contradiction to the terms of
>>> the GPL). So if you want the source code just let me know and I will send
>>> it.
>>>
>>> ....
>>>
>>>
>>> Apart from that, I will be looking into forking Impro-visor in the next few
>>> days. After making contact with the responsible parties about the GPL
>>> violations, I have received no reply and the source code has not been
>>> posted along with the binaries as is legally required....
>>>       
>> Turn this violation over to the kind folks at the FSF.  They have a legal team 
>> to pursue such, and have AFAIK, a 100% batting record.  Letters from attorneys 
>> will generally get their institutional attention.
>>   
>>     
>
> Maybe. I submitted details re: the LinuxSampler license to the FSF and 
> never heard a thing from them.
>
> For the OP's edification I submit this text from the GPL2 :
>
> *3.* You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, 
> under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of 
> Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
>
>
>     *a)* Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
>     source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1
>     and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, 
>
>     *b)* Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
>     years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost
>     of physically performing source distribution, a complete
>     machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
>     distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
>     customarily used for software interchange; or, 
>
>     *c)* Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
>     to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is
>     allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received
>     the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in
>     accord with Subsection b above.) 
>
>
>
> There is no legal requirement for the producer to post the source code 
> along with the binary. The legal requirement is that he makes it 
> available under conditions spelled out in the license.
>
> Best,
>
> dp

Yep! There was a similar problem for LMMS, because of Beatmachine Pro. I 
didn't read the LMMS dev archive, but I noticed that Beatmachine Pro is 
dead now, maybe there is a solution how to handle this in the LMMS dev 
mailing list archive. I stopped receiving mails from the list, when I 
started overboiling. I don't know if the LMMS folks solved it or if the 
Beatmachine Pro guy becomes "insightful".