On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, John Harrison wrote:
If it were up to me, we'd keep all of Sevy's stuff in Pd-extended. The licenses Sevy offers conflict with the licenses of much of the software it borrows from (for example EffecTV) so they are invalid anyway.
Invalid licenses are not to be automatically ignored. If you sign a contract that contradicts itself, that doesn't allow you to ignore any part of that contract. Instead, the contract has to be explicitly amended so that it can be respected wholly.
I don't buy the argument that the Sevy's stuff should be removed out of respect for the author, as this argument conflicts with a more compelling argument of respect for the community, for free software, and for the GPL license.
Sevy's stuff should be removed out of respect for the GPL license. Do you get this ?
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