24 Oct
2011
24 Oct
'11
10:38 a.m.
i go bananas wrote:
out of interest, what's the deal with pd being used as the audio engine for computer games, like Spore, or whatever? They don't make the source code available, do they? Wouldn't those applications also have to avoid [expr] ?
To some extend, that's a point for GPLv3 : clarify the "I just bundle the the software as is" situation and stuff like that.
You can always have libpd embedded in a dumb socket listener software, with opened source code, and have your closed-source application connect to it via TCP. By doing so you respect the licence from a law standpoint, but you don't really respect the spirit. It's up to you to decide wheter it's a problem or not.
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Charlot