3 Jul
2006
3 Jul
'06
7:31 p.m.
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 03:51 +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
It's still entirely legal for others to speculate
though... If we ask
questions and you don't answer then maybe that's legal too...
It seems to me that some company tried to use the work done by the LS
team without giving anything/much in return. The strange appearance of
the modification to the GPL in the LS README seems like a direct
response to the situation that occured when things didn't work out for
the LS team with regards to this mystery company.
That does not explain why the authors signed an NDA. I think it is more
likely that the "mystery company" had a (possibly vague and unlikely to
hold up in court, but what free software author could afford to take it
to court anyway) patent on some technique used by LinuxSampler, and
threatened them with a lawsuit if the authors didn't make sure that
LinuxSampler couldn't be used by some commercial competitor to the
mystery company, and promised not to mention anything about the whole
thing.
[snip]
Hence why I enjoy working with Linux Audio. Where the real bastards are
few and far between.
But we are still here!
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