[LAU] licensing fun

Roberto Gordo Saez roberto.gordo at gmail.com
Thu Sep 18 11:07:37 EDT 2008


On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:47:51AM -0400, Rob wrote:
> On Thursday 18 September 2008 10:29, James Stone wrote:
> > program is licensed under GPL). IIRC, zynaddsubfx used to have a
> > similarly non-free statement about not using the program to write
> > music "against God" (such as heavy metal).. 
> 
> Actually, he specifically forbade not only heavy metal, but also new-age 
> music.  Never been able to figure that one out, but I suppose any music 
> without lyrics is incapable of being droolingly religious, or 
> maybe "new-age" means something different in Jesustan.

AFAIK, Paul Nasca, the author of ZynAddSubFX, kindly agreed to remove
that condition from the program and web page some time ago. If you
download the latest version it should have no such exceptions.

I don't know about the IIRC case...



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