I replied to a comment from a guy on the LMMS Facebook page, he said "Yes, it is an awesome programme. One day LMMS will not be free so we have to use it while we can before it goes the same way as fl studio, etc."
I had to do a lot of research to answer it. I know LMMS is under GPLv2, but that doesn't mean we/you can decide stop publishing easy downloads for free... The only thing which have to be free is the source code, so for windows users it would be nearly impossible to build if developers took away the wiki and github. I wrote an answer: "I know the concern, but don't worry! LMMS is under the GPL licence version 2, this means the source code of LMMS must be free for everyone at all times. Someone could decide that they wanted to continue developing LMMS, and not give windows .exe files or linux .deb files for free, but if you wanted you could get hold of the source code, because you can't take away the fact that LMMS source code always must be free. Again, I doubt you will ever need to worry about this, cause I don't know about anyone in our team who wants to make LMMS commercial. " From my research I began to suspect that LMMS has to have the same licence as the LADSPA plugins we ship with. Don't mind the GPLv3 for now, the important text is bold: "When we say that GPLv2 and GPLv3 are incompatible, it means there is no legal way to combine code under GPLv2 with code under GPLv3 in a single program. This is because both GPLv2 and GPLv3 are copyleft licenses: each of them says, “*If you include code under this license in a larger program, the larger program must be under this license too.*” " https://www.gnu.org/licenses/rms-why-gplv3.html <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/rms-why-gplv3.html> The link above is interesting in itself. The more information and views on a case, the better. Please reply if I wrote something wrong to this guy on the Facebook page, or could improve the reply. -- View this message in context: http://linux-multimedia-studio-lmms.996328.n3.nabble.com/Can-LMMS-turn-commercial-tp9749.html Sent from the lmms-devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ LMMS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel
