28 Jan
2008
28 Jan
'08
10:35 a.m.
On Jan 27, 2008 1:11 PM, Christian Schoenebeck
<cuse(a)users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2008 09:52:35 schrieb Thorsten
Wilms:
Exactly. We don't have any sadomasochistic tendencies, so we're not keeping
this restriction and all the flamewars for fun. I would appreciate if your
claim would be true Marek, but it seems the FSF does not share your
interpretation of the GPL. And if the author of the license doesn't ... you
know ... who would?
Let me explain this a bit further Christian. In law there's a term
called willenserklaerung or declaration of will.
This means, if you make sure that the above "exception" is your
intepretation of the GPLv2
and it is the intent with which you attached the GPL to your own work,
then your explanation counts, not the one from FSF.
Marek
So to
summarize that with respect to LinuxSampler, the exception
"LinuxSampler is licensed under the GNU GPL with the exception that
USAGE of the source code, libraries and applications FOR COMMERCIAL
HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE PRODUCTS IS NOT ALLOWED" is in fact no exception
at all, and is already covered by GPL.
We have been told that the LS team talked to the FSF people. If things
would be so easy, I'm sure it would have been resolved already.