17 Oct
2007
17 Oct
'07
4:21 p.m.
On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 19:25 +0200, Arnold Krille wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 17. Oktober 2007 schrieb Mark Knecht:
I'm not a lawyer either. Section 10 of GPL2 includes:
"You may not impose any further restrictions on the exercise of the
rights granted or affirmed under this License."
So, you can't add restrictions (in this case commercial use of the
code). If you want to add restrictions then you can't use the GPL. At
least that's my reading.
-- Fernando
On 10/17/07, Arnold Krille
<arnold(a)arnoldarts.de> wrote:
I am not a lawyer, but neither the COPYING-file nor the (randomly picked)
src/linuxsampler.cpp state anything but gplv2 (or later) for the license.
The README states something about getting the authors authorization to use the
app in commercial software or hardware. While I think this is some legit
modification because they don't want their work to be used commercially
without them knowing, I don't think this rule applies as they probably didn't
ask all the participating authors (and the AUTHORS file states quite a few)
for their permission to change the license. Am Dienstag, 16. Oktober 2007 schrieb Marcos
Guglielmetti:
I believe the
point is that all of the latest versions, for at least 2
years now, are not GPL. The license was modified. Will gigaedit be able to play .gig files by
itself?
I mean: linuxsampler is not free software as in freedom, so, It would
be nice to have some replacement.
What is hindering you on using the latest
GPL-version? Which afaik
(without checking) is the latest stable released version anyway... Which leads me to believe that linuxsampler is (still)
free software as in
free-software-defined-by-the-fsf. Or anyone who made a contribution to
linuxsampler before the change in the license and wasn't asked about the
license-change can request for reversing the license-change or their
contribution to be removed from LS.