26 Jul
2009
26 Jul
'09
11:35 a.m.
Dave Phillips wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
Yep! There was a similar problem for LMMS, because of Beatmachine Pro. I
didn't read the LMMS dev archive, but I noticed that Beatmachine Pro is
dead now, maybe there is a solution how to handle this in the LMMS dev
mailing list archive. I stopped receiving mails from the list, when I
started overboiling. I don't know if the LMMS folks solved it or if the
Beatmachine Pro guy becomes "insightful".
On Sunday 19 July 2009, laseray(a)gmail.com wrote:
Maybe. I submitted details re: the LinuxSampler license to the FSF and
never heard a thing from them.
For the OP's edification I submit this text from the GPL2 :
*3.* You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
*a)* Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1
and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
*b)* Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost
of physically performing source distribution, a complete
machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
customarily used for software interchange; or,
*c)* Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is
allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received
the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in
accord with Subsection b above.)
There is no legal requirement for the producer to post the source code
along with the binary. The legal requirement is that he makes it
available under conditions spelled out in the license.
Best,
dp If anybody is interested, I have decompiled the
latest Impro-visor version,
which has only been provide as a binary (in contradiction to the terms of
the GPL). So if you want the source code just let me know and I will send
it.
....
Apart from that, I will be looking into forking Impro-visor in the next few
days. After making contact with the responsible parties about the GPL
violations, I have received no reply and the source code has not been
posted along with the binaries as is legally required....
Turn this violation over to the kind folks at the FSF. They have a legal
team
to pursue such, and have AFAIK, a 100% batting record. Letters from attorneys
will generally get their institutional attention.