Hi Ismael,
What is the status of packaging LinuxSampler for Debian?
Isn't it a completely frozen proyect?
Not at all, it's under active development. My understanding of the
situation is this...
The LinuxSampler developers were concerned that a hardware company would
take their GPL'd code and put it into a proprietary product,
disrespecting the licence. (A very valid concern, in my view). They
therefore floated the idea that a future version of the software would
have a GPL exception, which asked that commercial distributors contact
the original developers for permission before shipping the code.
Some people over-reacted (in my opinion) to this proposed change, and
said that they would no longer distribute or contribute to the
LinuxSampler code. Some people were under the impression that
LinuxSampler was no longer GPL'd, or had become proprietary - but I see
no evidence for that.
In the meantime, at least one LinuxSampler developer has been working on
the code, on behalf of the Italian company Lionstracs, which makes
GNU/Linux-based keyboard instruments. (We also did some work at 64
Studio for this company). We ship LinuxSampler 0.3.3 and the qsampler
GUI front-end 0.1.3 in 64 Studio, which are both under GPL.
The current release 0.4.0 is under GPL with the commercial use
exception; you can get Debian i386 packages here:
http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/debian/
I see no reason at all why version 0.4.0 should not be in Debian non-free.
Cheers!
Daniel
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