[LAD] Current state of GPL Juce?

Filipe Coelho falktx at gmail.com
Sun Jun 17 08:08:43 CEST 2018


On 06/17/2018 04:35 AM, bill-auger wrote:
> i suspect this concern is a bit belated - it probably goes back to the release
> of JUCE v5 in april 2017 - i dont think anything has changed since then - quite
> a fuss was made at the time like starting the very next day
>
> the GPL is still an option but it was removed from mention on the website and
> now is essentially a secret - new users need to actually download and read the
> source code or download and run the binary to learn that the GPL was an option
>
> i could point you to this discussion that tried to address the down-playing of
> the GPL option and the possibility of a community fork to remove the anti-
> features
>
> https://forum.juce.com/t/should-the-community-consider-a-juce-fork/22056

You can use my fork which is pure GPLv3: https://github.com/DISTRHO/Juce
I removed the tracking from the "IDE" (ProJucer) and also the 
tracking+watermark that gets exported per each plugin.


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