Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Dec 30, 2005, at 12:48 PM, Yves Degoyon wrote:
Marc Lavallée wrote:
Le 30 Décembre 2005 01:43, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
Any statement in a license can't just be disregarded. That's a very clear statement within a license, so its legally binding. And therefore PiDiP is not free software.
It has a weak legal binding. I would'nt say that it's "unfree" software, it's more like a open source software with a moral statement written as a banner in capital letters. This could be included in the "readme", not in the license.
I'd prefer to have that phrase removed from the PiDiP license, though I agree with its sentiment. Otherwise it will make distributing PiDiP difficult, among other things.
Yves's intention is to distribute PiDiP as free software, and its license is very easy to fix...
there's _no way_ this statement will disappear, man... i want to give it for alternative networks not for the power suckers...
That's bad news.
Therefore, we are forced to remove PiDiP from the Pd-extended packages, to keep the license issues clear.
You are also hurting alternative networks by using a non-free license. The GNU GPL is good enough for most alternative networks, I am hoping it can be good enough for you too.
you know what? i don't care at all... just sad to see the whole community to go a very wrong way ...
anyway, pd is just a computer program .. it doesn't matter so much.
saludos, sevy
.hc
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