Am 09.03.2007 um 00:03 schrieb Tim Blechmann:
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 23:37 +0100, Thomas Grill wrote:
Is Flext based externals, which need be GPL externals, violating the GPL when used as Max/MSP externals? If so, and if the GPL is not violated when using the Flext based externals with Pd, then it makes sense in my head to distinguish between binary and source wrt violation against the GPL. But Flext might have a clause that
catches just that?To my mind, flext-based Max externals would only violate the GPL, if they were shipped closed-source with Max. If the are GPL'd as well and installed by the user, i don't see
why this should be a problem.although i don't really like this clause, the following description is quite clear: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLPluginsInNF
I knew about this one, but i don't think that this is applicable if
there is no actual distribution of the non-GPLd program with GPLd
plugins.
I might be wrong, though. Anyway, i don't care much - if the GPL is
odd enough to violate against such usage i would consider a different
license. Idealism gone.
greetings, Thomas
-- Thomas Grill http://grrrr.org