On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 08:29:45PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Wow, that's interesting. I don't often hear that, people using Tcl in
their work.
I write open source code for a living -- Eventful sponsors my work on the Apache Lucy search engine library, and that's where about 75% of my hours go. A volunteer showed up a little while ago who wants to add Tcl bindings for Lucy. I'm teaching myself Tcl so that I can work with this volunteer more effectively.
Sure you can, its a .tcl script, meaning you are giving the user the
source whenever you are giving the user the program. So its even kind
of BSD-ish because you can't give the user a GUI plugin without giving
them the source, so you don't need to do anything else to distribute the source. Pd patches are the same idea.
I am sincerely grateful for the pointer to this plugin and for your generosity with your time and support, but I assume that a miscommunication has occurred and I am not understanding your suggestion properly. I cannot take code from this plugin, make changes to adapt it for Vanilla, remove the GPL tag and replace it with an implicit BSD license by submitting it to the patch tracker. That would not adhere to the original author's license, and it would be a violation of copyright.
If I wish to supply the proposed functionality for Vanilla my options are either to create a new patch from scratch which cannot be considered a "derivative work" of that plugin, or to track down all the original authors of that plugin, persuade them to issue their code under an additional BSD3 license, and then once that process is complete, create a derivative work and submit it.
Best,
Marvin Humphrey