On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:00:21AM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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. That repo is a fork of the pure-data.git repo of Miller, it is largely intended as way to develop and feed patches to the upstream pure-data.git, and as Matju pointed out, the only license statement in pd-extended.git is Miller's BSD one from pure-data git.
Thanks, Hans. Given your constraints, I can't think of a way to improve upon this setup.
It seems wise that you keep the satellite libraries in a seperate repository from the core -- that makes it more difficult for code to wander where it shouldn't or for tight bonds to form.
Of course it would be ideal if there was only one core repository, not the least because it seems like a lot of work for you to maintain the fork in the manner that you do -- but it is apparent why that is not feasible.
License proliferation is a costly problem, both in the open source world at large and within the microcosm of this one project.
Cheers,
Marvin Humphrey