8 Dec
2005
8 Dec
'05
3:45 a.m.
On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Lars Luthman wrote:
Their CVS server isn't responding, so I can't
see the whole License
Agreement. But I see this on the web page:
LinuxSampler is licensed under the GNU GPL license with the exception
that COMMERCIAL USE of the souce code, libraries and applications is
NOT ALLOWED without prior written permission by the LinuxSampler
authors. If you have questions on the subject please contact us.
Hmm....
From what I understand of GPL you can't put additional restrictions
to it. It's either GPL ot not.
The only thing you can do as a copyright holder is to dual-licence it,
like MySQL for instance, where you have one free GPL version with its
licensing rules or the same code bought as a commercial license
that you can use free of GPL restrictions.
AFAIKT from what Lars reports, LinuxSampler is violating GPL.
Regards,
Peder