On Tue, 2013-12-31 at 18:32 +0100, Brendan Jones wrote:
On 12/31/2013 06:08 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Dominique Michel
<dominique.michel(a)vtxnet.ch <mailto:dominique.michel@vtxnet.ch>> wrote:
In gentoo, we have another politic with the licences. The free
licence are accepted by portage by default, and for the other licences,
the user must accept them on a per package basis. For linuxsampler,
both the portage versions and the pro-audio overlay live version are
considered as GPL2, as stated into the source code.
It isn't clear that linuxsampler's license is legal. They use the GPL2
and then add restrictions, which is prohibited by the GPL. It may or may
not affect the license, but either way it is a wierd situation.
I think there is a definitive reason why upstream chose this path in
this case. I'm not privy to this, but it is sad, because it is an
awesome project, but we have to err on the side of freedom ...
I don't have time to search my mails now, but I had a discussion about
this issue and there's a famous example, where somebody add something to
the GPL similar to "only allowed to use the software for good, not for
evil".
I can search this "famous example" next year, but now my telephone,
resp. the people calling me are impatient. I'm forced to join a
party ;).
It's not good to exclude linuxsampler, since not only the software is
awesome, but also the free sample libraries are awesome.
Again: Guten Rutsch! to all how are still in 2013 and a Happy New Year!
to all who are already in 2014
Ralf