On 28/03/2014 14:49, Simon Wise wrote:
On 28/03/14 23:39, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 28 March 2014 08:34:28 Guillaume Pellerin did opine:
>
>> It seems that BitWig infringes the GPL: vamp-aubio is in there whereas
>> the GPL is not mentioned in legal.html, neither Paul Brossier, the
>> author of aubio...
>>
>>
http://files.parisson.com/doc/bitwig/legal.html
>>
>> :'(
>>
>> G
>
> Two files are GPLv3.
No, only LGPLv3 is mentioned..
But the way I read the rest of that, its a minefield,
full of
bouncing betties for the un-aware. I wouldn't advise downloading it
until those restrictions are lifted, every one of them. Otherwise you
could find yourself in a legal quagmire.
nothing in that document seems wrong ... most of it is BSD style licenses and
the appropriate acknowledgements are there, a few are LGPL, which certainly
allow use linked to closed code, and there is an offer to deliver source code
at cost of delivery. Perhaps including the sources for those parts alongside the
deb would have been a bit nicer, but they are libraries distributed for use with
closed code and especially if they are simply used as the original binaries then
all seems appropriate. None of the authors chose strict copyleft licenses.
Maybe I haven't been clear enough.. The current BitWig package includes vamp-aubio:
$ ls /opt/bitwig-studio/bin/vamp-plugins/
transient-detector.so vamp-aubio.so
but vamp-aubio embeds libaubio which is GPL and then should be a least
mentioned. But as Alexandre got it from the BitWig team on twitter, aubio is not
used anymore by the app and will be removed from it.
G