[LAU] Bitwig 1.0 is out

Gene Heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Fri Mar 28 12:39:34 UTC 2014


On Friday 28 March 2014 08:34:28 Guillaume Pellerin did opine:

> It seems that BitWig infringes the GPL: vamp-aubio is in there whereas
> the GPL is not mentioned in legal.html, neither Paul Brossier, the
> author of aubio...
> 
> http://files.parisson.com/doc/bitwig/legal.html
> 
> :'(
> 
> G

Two files are GPLv3. But the way I read the rest of that, its a minefield, 
full of bouncing betties for the un-aware. I wouldn't advise downloading it 
until those restrictions are lifted, every one of them.  Otherwise you 
could find yourself in a legal quagmire.

Cheers, Gene
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