- Pd from Miller is BSD licensed so you can do whatever you want with
it as long as you include the copyright statement.
- Pd-extended and almost everything in the pure-data CVS is GNU
GPL'ed. That means you can do whatever you want with it as long as
you freely distribute the source to any changes that you make.
So either way, you would have no legal issues in your two examples.
You would only have legal issues if the company did not share its
changes of Pd-extended or other GPL'ed code. They would be forced to
release the source just like Linksys was for their routers.
.hc
On Jun 15, 2006, at 7:03 PM, Charles Henry wrote:
I've had this question for a while now: (and I sure don't
understand licenses)Suppose I get a job as an engineer, and decide to prototype DSP or control algorithms using Pd, for some great big company. Do we have legal issues, in development? Then, suppose, we decide to sell, hardware (like embedded linux) with Pd running the DSP algorithm, and some proprietary external (not released), that makes it work. Do we have legal issues, then?
At what point, do we cross the line and become evil like Tivo?
Chuck
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