Hello,
I am not a PD developer, but as (amateur) artist and (professional) software developer, I am very sensitive about copyrights and licences.
I am a fervent Free Software defender, and I want to accept all licences I have to respect for all software I use.
In my Linux distribution (Gentoo Linux), we have to explicitly list what licences we accept, and set its name in a list, after reading it.
So, I discover I have installed pd-extended without knowing that non-free or restrictive licences are used, which I would refuse (I don't like licences as PiDip, especially if it is derived from a GPL project but not respecting the GPL licence, for me it's like pirating software).
So, yes, please list ALL the licences which are included in PD/PD-extended, especially those that are not compatible with common Open Source / Free licences ! At least users need to know they use non-free parts of software, and use it being aware of it.
(I use proprietary software too, and I know its terms).
Kind regards, Xavier Miller.
Le 08/12/10 21:10, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
So we now have two non-free libraries included in the pure-data SVN: pidip and unauthorized. As far as I understand it, this is in violation of what SourceForge asks of projects, and also seems to me in violation of the developers on the pure-data SourceForge, since the rest of the code there uses free licenses (mostly GPL, BSD-like, and Tcl-like).
So the question is: should we remove pidip and unauthorized from the pure-data SVN?
.hc
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