On Sep 28, 2011, at 11:08 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
Le 2011-09-28 à 11:00:00, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
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.That said, building the actual Pd-extended package uses stuff that
is outside that repo which is definitely GPL. That's the stuff in
the pure-data SVN.Even though from the standpoint of using Pd as one indiscriminate
whole, you can think of it as GPL because that's the «strongest»
license being used, the BSD portions are so large in size that it's
misleading to say that GPL is the license of Pd. That's because it's
very possible to pick the parts of Pd you want to use so that you
only use BSD code, and because the core of the software is under BSD
license.
Yes, it would be misleading to say Pd is under the GPL. I haven't
heard anyone say that. Pd-extended is under the GPL tho.
.hc
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