Because of the requirements of the GNU GPL 2 license of PDP and
effectv, the PiDiP code is required to be released under the GNU GPL 2
license.
PiDiP is distributed in Pd-extended, which has a GNU GPL 2 license.
FYI: you can use some parts of Pd-extended from the CVS with a SIBSD
license, but the whole package is released under the GNU GPL since it
includes GNU GPL'd code.
.hc
On Jan 17, 2006, at 8:00 PM, juto aviten wrote:
Hi, the personn concern by this didn't really give his opinion, or maybe
I am wrong he already done in a previous thread that talked about this
problem. we all agree that all versions realized since now are under GPL's
licence terms and that won't change! But I didn't understand what will
happen for next, it seems some people here are more informed than
others? Is this double licence will affect the copy of the software, to
change the code, redistribute it... will be people have to use the
both same licence GPL and SIBSD(?), why did you talked, Mathieu, in
the term "non-free software, and at worst, it's illegal to distribute
it"? We need to know if this is serious or non-sense? Because it could
change the way we work with this piece of software... I think that's a
subject that concern every users here to know what's happen with PD
and librairies, because PIDIP is a group of externals, it's not PD
itself... it's like the story with Olaf and his ogg objects, his
position was clear... what about this time? Why Yves choose 2 licence,
why GPL is not anymore suited to his work?cheers
juto
Please note that PiDiP is legally muddy. At best, it's non-free
software, and at worst, it's illegal to distribute it.This is because it has two licences and no mention that the user can
pick either, so by default all licenses must apply at once, and because
those two licenses are conflicting. It's licensed under both the GPL and a modified SIBSD license. Normally, GPL and SIBSD are compatible, but
the extra PiDiP-specific clause is conflicting with the GPL.The PiDiP-specific clause is also conflicting with the FSD (Free
Software Definition) and the OSD (Open-Source Definition): this is what is prompting Hans to remove PiDiP from the pd-extended installers.For more information you may read the pd-dev archives starting
December 30th, 2005.
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