23 Apr
2006
23 Apr
'06
10:24 p.m.
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 01:14 +0100, Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
This is not the first time I see something like this posted on the
lists, sigh:
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On Thursday 20 April 2006 11:03, Dave Phillips
wrote:
People, please calm down.
I gotta repeat my own understanding of this issue, but I think it all
boils down to this:
a) linuxsampler-0.3.3 is the last known public release; as is, its pure
GPL, everyone if free to fork it according to FSF legalese ;) Frank Barknecht wrote:
Its my understanding of the GPL that you CANNOT apply additional
restrictions and still call it "GPL".
I'd suggest they consult with an attorney before they write such
foolery.
> This is from recent CVS sources. According to their words: "COMMERCIAL USE of
the souce code,
libraries and applications is NOT ALLOWED without prior written
permission by the LinuxSampler authors" no professional musician is
allowed to use LinuxSampler except with a written permission.
Frank, where did you
get this text ? It's not the text I quoted from
the LS README :
"The LinuxSampler library (liblinuxsampler) and its applications are
distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (see
COPYING file), but with the EXCEPTION that they may NOT be used in
COMMERCIAL software or hardware products without prior written
authorization by the authors." tar
xvjf
/projects/planet/source/rpms/linuxsampler/linuxsampler-0.3.3.tar.bz2
cd linuxsampler-0.3.3
more README
LinuxSampler - modular, streaming capable sampler
by Benno Senoner (benno(a)gardena.net)
and Christian Schoenebeck (cuse(a)users.sourceforge.net)
This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License (see
COPYING file), and may not be used in commercial applications
without asking the authors for permission.
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so, AFAIK 0.3.3 is already not really GPL for the reasons already listed
in the thread.
Maybe I have the wrong tarball? (BTW, try to download 0.3.3 - let me
know how you manage to do that). If you go to the CVS site and browse
the 0.3.3 release branch you get the same thing in the README.
b) linuxsampler CVS HEAD (IOW, all source code in CVS
since 0.3.3
release) is the one which The-Rather-Illegal-GPL-Exception applies;
thats actually intentional; if you're a distro packager, do NOT pick it!
being you debianese or not :) unless you get the explicit LS-devel
permission to do it, of course, as stated on the infamous exception.
Is that clear?
Not really, I keep seeing the above referenced README in 0.3.3. So,
unless I'm missing something, please stop saying that this is only
happening in CVS.
-- Fernando