I have contacted the author and am waiting to see whether he will change the license. If not then we will either remove or move it to non-free.
Matt On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 10:50:12AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 08:03:46AM +0300, Harri J?rvi wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 16:26:15 +0200, G?ran Weinholt wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 05:54:35PM +0300, Harri J?rvi wrote: > > > > > > In addition there's a conflict between linuxsampler's aim to be an > > > > opensource software, and the license used. Restricting commercial use > > > > makes the software nonopensource by OSI definition and nonfree by Free > > > > Software Foundation's Free Software definition. > > > > > > I think upstream only meant to make it clear to developers of > > > proprietary software that they need to ask for a special license if > > > they don't want to follow the GPL. > > > > I wish it was so, but this is written on the project home page > > at <http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html>: > > > > "License > > > > LinuxSampler is licensed under the GNU GPL license with the exception > > that COMMERCIAL USE of the souce code, libraries and applications is > > NOT ALLOWED without prior written permission by the LinuxSampler > > authors. If you have questions on the subject please contact us." > > That is indeed non-free and fails DFSG #6, the package cannot be in main, but > could be in non-free maybe. > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther > -- http://www.flatmax.org Public Projects : http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=mffm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
