On Aug 10, 2010, at 12:25 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
--- On Tue, 8/10/10, Frank Barknecht fbar@footils.org wrote:
From: Frank Barknecht fbar@footils.org Subject: Re: [PD] pd on ipad with externals To: pd-list@iem.at Date: Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 12:53 PM Hi,
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:07:55AM +0100, João Pais wrote:
but to make patches run, they have to be programmed in
vanilla,
right? and it's not possible to do reatime control
like input
numbers, or anything more than the touchpad control?
or is it possible to use pd-ext in the iphone or ipod
maxi?
As Cyrille wrote, it's mostly a political issue: AppStore apps are tied to the device and officially only available through the AppStore. This is some kind of DRM and many people don't consider it compatible with the GPL, at least not with the latest version.
More specifically, the FSF considers the GPL incompatible with the ToS for the Itunes and App store:
http://www.fsf.org/news/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-gpl-enforce...
To play it safe, the Pd in RjDj only contains the BSD parts of Pd, no [expr] etc. Some GPL stuff is included, like the rj library, but that's all written by Reality Jockey.
What does authorship have to do with whether the Appstore ToS
conflicts with the GPL?
The GPL is a license to use copyrighted material that you otherwise
would not have any legal right to use. If the author of GPL software
posts their software to the appstore, it could be read as a implied
statement that the author is not going to enforce all aspects of the
GPL. An explicit statement to that effect would be better.
If you don't own the copyright, then that is not your decision to make.
.hc
Programs should be written for people to read, and only incidentally
for machines to execute.
- from Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs