[LAU] Pre-License change LinuxSampler code

Paul Coccoli pcoccoli at gmail.com
Thu May 1 23:16:11 EDT 2008


On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>  My only requirements in providing this code are:
>
>  1) Some sort of ongoing SourceForge or other publicly available
>  location for the project needs to be created and maintained by a small
>  group of project managers committed to the project. Responsibilities
>  and duties to be agreed upon.

So which clause of the license gives you the right to distribute with
additional requirements?

>  2) The license for this fork must remain completely GPL forever.
>  Should someone want to make a commercial product from this fork then
>  the license should allow them to at least try. I expect they will run
>  into the same issues, whatever they were, that the original
>  LinuxSampler team had, but I do not want the license for this code to
>  prohibit them from trying and at least we'll get the issues out on the
>  table publicly.

If you are not the copyright holder, how can you require that the
license not be changed?

Shoudl you decide to redistribute this code, I would like a copy,
subject only to the terms under which it is licensed.

Thanks,
Paul



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