Really bad situation. I think the CNMAT should rethink its license, especially if they want OSC to become a standard. Its strange that the topic didn't show up before.
Guenter
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, d.lj wrote:
anyway, i ll ask about it on the osc list and see what the cnmat ppl say.
_j
[Hans-Christoph Steiner]->[[PD-dev] OSCx License is not free?]->[04-04-05 10:55]
| |Anyone know what the license is of the OSCx code in CVS is? On the |files themselves, the license is a non-free license. So unless its |been released under a different license also, it shouldn't be in |SourceForge CVS and it can't be distributed with the Pd installers or |in Debian. (This isn't a political issue, its a legal issue. UC |Berkeley could sue SourceForge, guenter, or me, for example, for |violating their license). | |This is from the top of externals/OSCx/src/dumpOSC.c: | |"Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its |documentation for educational, research, and not-for-profit purposes, |without |fee and without a signed licensing agreement, is hereby granted, |provided that |the above copyright notice, this paragraph and the following two |paragraphs |appear in all copies, modifications, and distributions. Contact The |Office of |Technology Licensing, UC Berkeley, 2150 Shattuck Avenue, Suite 510, |Berkeley, |CA 94720-1620, (510) 643-7201, for commercial licensing opportunities." | |.hc | |________________________________________________________________________ |____ | |Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to |realize his wishes. |Now that he can realize them, he must either change them, or perish. | -William Carlos Williams |
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