On Sep 28, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
Le 2011-09-28 à 20:12:00, Simon Wise a écrit :
Many parts are more widely usable than the GPL allows, but you
would need to check the license for that part before doing so ...
the only thing that the distribution claims is that its contents
are all compatible with GPL3.
I just downloaded Pd 0.42.5-extended binary for Ubuntu 10.10 and
clicked about Pd. It says :
« Pd is copyrighted but is free for you to use for any reasonable
purpose under the GNU GPL version 3 . Follow the link for more
details about the license: »
and then when clicking, it says « Parts of this package can be used
under Pd’s BSD license » at the top, not saying which part. Clicking
on that link you get :
« This software is copyrighted by Miller Puckette and others. The
following terms (the "Standard Improved BSD License") apply to all
files associated with the software unless explicitly disclaimed in
individual files: »
So, it does not acknowledge of any BSD code that isn't copyrighted
by Miller, while not saying right away that Miller is the guy who
holds the copyright to the core (not counting expr~), and it's
confusing people by claiming GPL3 status in a way that would make
people believe that the core part is GPL3 too.
If you read the terms of the other licenses, you will see that Pd-
extended is complying with them. Their license files are intact and
included. If not, its a bug, and that should be added to the bug
tracker. For example, the New BSD license does not require that I
post that license info everywhere (the original one did).
.hc
I think a library was dropped recently because the license was too
restrictive for GPL3.
Stating what the licensing goals are, is different from stating
which license(s) are in used, in which parts of Pd-extended.
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