I wasn't aware that Apple are doing this. This is interesting and important to me. Frank and I are two of the principle authors of rjlib (in fact there are many others including Chris McCormick and many Pd artists who have allowed their work to be incorporated into the collection, all as GPL)
Every patch carries a prominent GPL notice.
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:25:55 -0700 (PDT) Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com wrote:
--- On Tue, 8/10/10, Frank Barknecht fbar@footils.org wrote:
From: Frank Barknecht fbar@footils.org Subject: Re: [PD] pd on ipad with externals To: pd-list@iem.at Date: Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 12:53 PM Hi,
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:07:55AM +0100, João Pais wrote:
but to make patches run, they have to be programmed in
vanilla,
right? and it's not possible to do reatime control
like input
numbers, or anything more than the touchpad control?
or is it possible to use pd-ext in the iphone or ipod
maxi?
As Cyrille wrote, it's mostly a political issue: AppStore apps are tied to the device and officially only available through the AppStore. This is some kind of DRM and many people don't consider it compatible with the GPL, at least not with the latest version.
More specifically, the FSF considers the GPL incompatible with the ToS for the Itunes and App store:
http://www.fsf.org/news/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-gpl-enforce...
To play it safe, the Pd in RjDj only contains the BSD parts of Pd, no [expr] etc. Some GPL stuff is included, like the rj library, but that's all written by Reality Jockey.
What does authorship have to do with whether the Appstore ToS conflicts with the GPL?
-Jonathan
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