On Oct 23, 2011, at 1:45 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
Le 2011-10-24 à 02:27:00, i go bananas a écrit :
how hard would it be to rewrite the expr code so that it doesn't
need to be GPL licensed?The only other implementation of [expr] is [#expr], but that's GPL
too. But it shows that an implementation of [expr] doesn't have to
be long and complicated like the original [expr].At the moment, [#expr] supports only floats. It was meant to also
support symbols and grids, but that's not implemented yet. Signals
are in some way another business, but nearly all of the same code
can be reused.or has anyone ever tried contacting the original authors and asking
them to change the license so it can fit in with pd's standard BSD ??I don't think anyone here ever wrote to the guy... you could try.
BTW, would LGPL be fine ? To GPL fans, that's easier to accept, yet
it works in contexts where GPL is not acceptable, such as iPhone
development. For example, the gzip codec (libz) is LGPL, yet it's
used in several iPhone activities such as decompressing http streams
and png images.
I think the Apple App Store conflicts with all GNU/FSF licenses. Any
effort to switch code to BSD in order to work around Apple's lameness
should also be matched with efforts to get Apple to stop being so lame.
.hc
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software means someone else controls that, and to some extent controls
you." - Richard M. Stallman