[linux-audio-user] Re: distorting Linuxsampler

[Patrick Shirkey]

Nick Copeland wrote:
>
> 
> What I want to say is the migration of Linux Sampler from GPL to any 
> other form of license is just a recognition of a massive shift in the 
> market, and perhaps something that GPL needs to come to terms with.
> 

It's a good point that you raise and I know Mark is well aware of this 
given his work history ;)

I think the people who wrote the GPL had a pretty fair idea of the 
multinational corporate environment when they wrote the License.

I find it strange that Mark is willing to use the other completely 
proprietry apps but not LS simply because they have a small clause in 
their license which demands commercial companies get their permission 
before embedding the code.

It has nothing to do with the end user :?

But it also seems strange that they haven't been taken to task for 
altering the GPL. That is definitely illegal AFAIK. Doesn't the BSD 
license cover their needs?

Cheers.

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