Package: csound Version: 1:4.23f12-3 Severity: wishlist Dear Csounders,
the OSC-Kit as used in Csound had a license incompatible with Debian. However several months ago OSC-Kit underwent a license change visible in the source archive at: http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/OpenSoundControl/Kit/OSC-Kit.tar.Z Most notably the restriction "for educational, research, and not-for-profit purposes" was dropped from the license of OSC-Kit. The license now instead says: Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and distribute modified versions of this software and its documentation without fee and without a signed licensing agreement, is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice, this paragraph and the following two paragraphs appear in all copies, modifications, and distributions. which looks fine for Debian and DSFG-compliant (but IANAL). Unfortunatly the change in the OSC-Kit upstream did not find its way yet into the Csound upstream source on Sourceforge. However it would be nice to have OSC available in Csound on Debian. So my feature wish would be to evaluate the renewed license of OSC-Kit in regard to DSFG-compliance and then make the Csound developers aware of that change, so they can adapt their OSC-Kit copy to be truly free. Thanks, Frank Barknecht -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Kernel Version: Linux fliwatut.scifi 2.6.9 #1 Sat Dec 18 17:22:22 CET 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Versions of the packages csound depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone ii libfltk1.1c102 1.1.6-2 Fast Light Toolkit shared libraries ii libstdc++5 3.3.4-11 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol client library ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System miscellaneous extension libr ii libxft2 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing library for X ii xlibs 4.3.0-7 X Window System client libraries metapackage -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
