On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 02:33:13PM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
Le 2011-10-11 à 11:37:00, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
I work to make sure that everything in Pd-extended is GPLv3 compatible.
[...]
Everything in Pd-extended is GPLv3,
I think that it's better to remain picky in the manner of saying things
like that, and not confuse GPLv3 and GPLv3-compatible. You could be saying something like « All licenses of all parts of Pd-extended are
GPLv3-compatible and it will remain like that ».
+1
"Everything in Pd-extended is GPLv3" is simply incorrect. License proliferation within Pd is regrettable and sucks time and energy better spent on other things, but asserting that everything is under a unified licensing regime when that's just not true makes things *more* complicated, not less.
It is not in the interest of the project to create a situation where the licensing of patches is contentious because a contributor was told something that conflicted with the reality of how the files are licensed in the repository.
This causes less confusion than claiming things about a whole when people don't know what the whole is supposed to mean.
Indeed. It was a similarly expansive passage[1] earlier in this thread that prompted me to request clarification regarding the status of contributions to individual parts of Pd-extended (which was quickly forthcoming[2], thank you).
Had language such as "All licenses of all parts of Pd-extended are GPLv3-compatible" been used instead, this thread might have been shorter. :P
Marvin Humphrey
[1] http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2011-09/091410.html
"My personal thoughts on the license of what is in pd-extended.git are
more vague. Yes, the intention is for much/most of that code to
contributed back to Pd, but my only distribution of the whole thing is
part of the Pd-extended package, which is GPLv3. So if you want to be
sure, consider it GPLv3."
[2] http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2011-09/091422.html
"As the maintainer and main author of the pd-extended.git, I will you
give you my assurance that the code under pd-extended.git is under a
BSD license."