Re: [linux-audio-dev] New form of GPL licence that protects Linux from proprietary world [was: New powermacs?]

2003-06-23 Thread Fred Gleason
On Monday 23 June 2003 13:59, Ivica Bukvic wrote: > However, no one has yet managed to propose an alternative that would > resolve the dilemma that started the whole discussion -- ensuring that > Linux-developed audio software primarily benefits Linux, not a > non-related third-party OS that makes

RE: [linux-audio-dev] New form of GPL licence that protects Linux from proprietary world [was: New powermacs?]

2003-06-23 Thread Ivica Bukvic
> It is important to note some of Apple's contributions to the open > source community besides darwin. Darwin was not developed by Apple. It's originally a project that was developed on Intel machines. Apple took it on since it had an acceptable license (BSD). > Several compiler and debugger > en

RE: [linux-audio-dev] New form of GPL licence that protects Linux from proprietary world [was: New powermacs?]

2003-06-23 Thread Ivica Bukvic
> > How do you think the Linux kernel is being developed so fast? > > By enthusiatic developers with enough money to survive. Wrong. How do you think Linus will now dedicate full-time to developing kernel, from paypal contributions from other geeks? It's IBM, Redhat, and many other companies with

Re: [linux-audio-dev] New form of GPL licence that protects Linux from proprietary world [was: New powermacs?]

2003-06-23 Thread Thomas Hudson
On Sunday, June 22, 2003, at 10:46 AM, Ivica Bukvic wrote: Not a _specific_ OS. There are _many_ open-source OS's out there and none of them have monopolistic agenda like Apple or M$. Nor do they use the open-source community efforts to promote their own commercial products. It is important to note

RE: [linux-audio-dev] New form of GPL licence that protects Linux from proprietary world [was: New powermacs?]

2003-06-23 Thread Ivica Bukvic
> if you assume what i'm saying two paragraphs up is in some way > accurate, then it makes sense that you should make software so good > that it will make people want to switch (and once they switch to the > audio software and are happy, motivating a switch to linux is easy). Well, that's what I a

Re: [linux-audio-dev] New form of GPL licence that protects Linux from proprietary world [was: New powermacs?]

2003-06-22 Thread rm
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 11:25:58PM -0400, Ivica Bukvic wrote: > > I don't care about Linux. > > So what in the world are you doing on a _linux_ audio dev list? i wouldn't mind this being free-audio-dev list. although i think it would lose some of the technical focus on the particular intricacies o

RE: [linux-audio-dev] New form of GPL licence that protects Linux from proprietary world [was: New powermacs?]

2003-06-22 Thread Ivica Bukvic
> Guess what: your derived license would be incompatible with the GPL or any > OSI license. You don't understand what free software is. Here you go again, yakking making conclusions on your own doctored "facts." I never implied occlusion of the source code nor did I ever suggest that I've worked

Re: [linux-audio-dev] New form of GPL licence that protects Linux from proprietary world [was: New powermacs?]

2003-06-22 Thread rm
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 05:52:47PM -0400, Ivica Bukvic wrote: > Software would remain open-source. But the assumption is if you are > willing to part with the freedoms Linux and other GNU OS's offer, and > [...] > I disagree. It penalizes the company so that it cannot claim that it is > Unix-like

RE: [linux-audio-dev] New form of GPL licence that protects Linux from proprietary world [was: New powermacs?]

2003-06-22 Thread Ivica Bukvic
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 01:46:30PM -0400, Ivica Bukvic wrote: > > > So basically, you want to restrict the use of a software to a specific > > > type of operating system? Like M$ does? > > > > Not a _specific_ OS. There are _many_ open-source OS's out there and > > none of them have monopolistic

Re: [linux-audio-dev] New form of GPL licence that protects Linux from proprietary world [was: New powermacs?]

2003-06-22 Thread Paul Davis
>I would love to hear from Paul Davis on this issue since he is one of >the most involved contributors in this community when it comes to >monetary dependence. Paul? at the point you wrote this, i was at about mile 142 of a 200 mile bicycle ride through north-western new jersey. i finished 2 hours

Re: [linux-audio-dev] New form of GPL licence that protects Linux from proprietary world [was: New powermacs?]

2003-06-22 Thread rm
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 01:46:30PM -0400, Ivica Bukvic wrote: > > So basically, you want to restrict the use of a software to a specific > > type of operating system? Like M$ does? > > Not a _specific_ OS. There are _many_ open-source OS's out there and > none of them have monopolistic agenda like

RE: [linux-audio-dev] New form of GPL licence that protects Linux from proprietary world [was: New powermacs?]

2003-06-22 Thread Ivica Bukvic
> So basically, you want to restrict the use of a software to a specific > type of operating system? Like M$ does? Not a _specific_ OS. There are _many_ open-source OS's out there and none of them have monopolistic agenda like Apple or M$. Nor do they use the open-source community efforts to promo

RE: [linux-audio-dev] New form of GPL licence that protects Linux from proprietary world [was: New powermacs?]

2003-06-22 Thread Ivica Bukvic
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linux-audio-dev- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erik de Castro Lopo > Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 3:29 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] New form of GPL licence that protects Linux > f

Re: [linux-audio-dev] New form of GPL licence that protects Linux from proprietary world [was: New powermacs?]

2003-06-22 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 22:16:52 -0400 "Ivica Bukvic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I really don't see this as a problem. > > Do you mind saying why? Well people using libsndfile means that there are less people rolling their own buggy implementations. This eventually means that libsndfile has to h

Re: [linux-audio-dev] New form of GPL licence that protects Linux from proprietary world [was: New powermacs?]

2003-06-22 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 08:22:37PM -0400, Ivica Bukvic wrote: >However this brings up one interesting point/problem. Due to GPL nature >of Linux software, many of our efforts will seamlessly bleed into OS X >world since there are no restrictions as to which platform this software >is run on, and Ap

Re: [linux-audio-dev] New form of GPL licence that protects Linux from proprietary world [was: New powermacs?]

2003-06-21 Thread krautj
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 20:22:37 -0400, "Ivica Bukvic" wrote: >Thanks! This really helped me see straight again :-). > >However this brings up one interesting point/problem. Due to GPL nature >of Linux software, many of our efforts will seamlessly bleed into OS X >world since there are no restrictions

RE: [linux-audio-dev] New form of GPL licence that protects Linux from proprietary world [was: New powermacs?]

2003-06-21 Thread Ivica Bukvic
> I really don't see this as a problem. Do you mind saying why? The way I see it is it could be possibly because it feels good for a developer to see that the interest in their creation is increasing beyond the confines of the original platform, which certainly is good for the developer as an ind

Re: [linux-audio-dev] New form of GPL licence that protects Linux from proprietary world [was: New powermacs?]

2003-06-21 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 20:22:37 -0400 "Ivica Bukvic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks! This really helped me see straight again :-). > > However this brings up one interesting point/problem. Due to GPL nature > of Linux software, many of our efforts will seamlessly bleed into OS X > world since t

Re: [linux-audio-dev] New form of GPL licence that protects Linux from proprietary world [was: New powermacs?]t

2003-06-21 Thread Tim Hockin
> In the end, we will not reap what we have sown. Users on the OS X will > be theoretically able to run Ardour as much as we will, especially now > that jackd has been ported to OS X. To me, this does not seem right. I guess I don't see it as a problem. Forcing people to use this or that software

RE: [linux-audio-dev] New form of GPL licence that protects Linux from proprietary world [was: New powermacs?]

2003-06-21 Thread Ivica Bukvic
> Perhaps we should make a mended version of GPL that would have exact > permissions like the original GPL license, but in addition would ask > that the software cannot be run on top of proprietary OS. This way, we Sorry, meant to say commercial OS since obviously one could run such software on OS

[linux-audio-dev] New form of GPL licence that protects Linux from proprietary world [was: New powermacs?]

2003-06-21 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Thanks! This really helped me see straight again :-). However this brings up one interesting point/problem. Due to GPL nature of Linux software, many of our efforts will seamlessly bleed into OS X world since there are no restrictions as to which platform this software is run on, and Apple made an