27 Jan
2008
27 Jan
'08
9:29 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?
Can you paste information that would confirm your claim that "The FSF
doesn't share my interpretation of the GPL"? I'd be very interested to read
it.
Note the the GPL is an extremely restrictive license(to the advantage of the
copyright holder), and numerous articles have been published, and numerous
statements from various companies have been issued regarding this very
issue.
For example have a look at the intepretation which you can find directly
below the terms of GPL: This General Public License does not permit
incorporating your program into proprietary programs.
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.