Hi fellow CinCV'ers I recently was browsing the mail archives here and noticed some concern over the AV Linux 5.0 release announcement I posted here in June. My sincere apologies for not replying, at the time I was not a Cinelerra mailing list subscriber so any replies to my announcement didn't come back to me.
Hopefully I can clarify what 'non-GPL' means in reference to AV Linux for those on the list who care to know... AV Linux is a multimedia focused distro and contains both excellent Open-Source programs and also Commercial Linux Audio Plugins and Sequencers that are presented as demos. I personally am not a very political Linux user and enjoy both open and closed Linux software so I made arrangements with each individual developer/vendor of the commercial applications to include the demo versions in AV Linux. The terms of the demo licenses were that I could distribute them in AV Linux however someone could not re-distribute AV Linux as-is without violating those licenses. This is why AV Linux is non-GPL because it can't be redistributed as-is. However AV Linux with all the commercial demos removed is simply a heavily tweaked and customized Debian Squeeze and would be GPL like the software it contains. I am a huge fan of Cinelerra and would very much like to use my AV Linux distribution to promote and further it's use as well as it's contemporaries. I take a personal interest in it and have recently done a lot of behind the scenes configuration work to make easier for new users in the next AV Linux release. I sincerely hope that this post clears up any confusion or concern about my intentions. Best Regards, Glen MacArthur - AV Linux Maintainer _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
