On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:43:30 +0100 Krzysztof Czaja czaja@chopin.edu.pl wrote:
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.
does this kind of situation even get covered by these open source licenses? if it does then it sounds like a kind of automatic patent, which i'm pretty sure it isn't.
one thing i always found strange about these licences is that they really only cover the monkey-work of software engineering. i'm not sure if there is anything stopping a company from getting another monkey to 'reinterpret' some open source code and close the resulting project.
i have heard that it is possible to patent and algorithm and donate the patent to the FSF (who i assume will only allow use by GPL projects) - if the above were not possible this would never be necessary.
pix.