hi all,

what license would be the most appropriate for a `vexing' library of Pd externals, that I am going to release this week, and in which I use snippets from GPLed sfront, MITed Csound, and Pd? The code is either written from scratch, or completely rewritten, _but_ after careful reading of sfront, Csound, and Pd code -- and it shows.

The external in question is vex_gen, which fills Pd arrays according to saol wavetable generators (if fed with anythings) or Csound f statements (if fed with lists).

Of course, I would prefer Pd license, but what if in order to use that I would have to apply for ``specific prior permission from M.I.T''? (I do not know even, if my country is not under high-tech embargo of any sort;-)

Krzysztof

first smoerk wrote: ...

i would prefer a license like bsd or the pd license. nothing against gpl, but for such a general thing, it would be better to have a license, which gives the author of a new external the freedom to choose

then Thomas Grill wrote: ...

As i see it (and read it in the gpl.txt file), the GPL grants you the freedom to do with the code what you want, and also change and redistribute it as long as you state what the sources are and as long as you make the source code available to the public again. This is just my intention: as i learned a lot of things out of the open sources from pd, GEM and other packages, other people should be given that opportunity as well. If there is any further problem please let me know.