Thank you Iohannes. I read more carefully the GPL page.
Cheers, Marco Matteo Markidis
2015-12-14 13:14 GMT+01:00 IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig@iem.at:
On 2015-12-14 12:30, Marco Matteo Markidis wrote:
Hi guys.
In this period I need a reverb with the time control in Pd. Googling, I found a Max port made by Olaf Matthes of Juhana Sadeharju's gigaverb. So I did a Pd port of gigaverb~ and now it works. The source code I found contains the typical GPL disclaimer but at the
top
there is "Copyright (C) 1999 Juhana Sadeharju". So I don't know if there
is
some legal problem in order to distribute this external. Someone can help me?
why would there be?
the GPL is a *license*, not a *copyright* (despite it's alias "copyleft").
so any properly licensed (non Public Domain) software contains two things:
- a copyright stanza (who owns the copyright)
- a license grant (under which terms you can use the software)
this is even made explicit in the GPL howto [1]:
Whichever license you plan to use, the process involves adding two elements to each source file of your program: a copyright notice (such as “Copyright 1999 Terry Jones”), and a statement of copying permission, saying that the program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (or the Lesser GPL).
fgmdsr IOhannes
[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html
ghsdfm IOhannes
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