On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 01:20 +0200, Arnold Krille wrote: > Hi, > > On Sunday 26 July 2009 00:14:45 Sampo Savolainen wrote: > > The idea behind GPL is that if someone else modifies the code and > > redistributes this work, he must provide the code (under the same > > license) for anyone receiving the software. That is the point of the > > license. > > The main point I remembered from the last thread with "Impro-Visor" in the > title: It uses gpl software itself. Which means that it has to publish the > modifications of that part at least.
True, if they have done any modifications to that "external" part. If it's only using it (jmusic?) as a library, the license of the library shouldn't affect the main software. But this has always been a hot topic with GPL: how to link dynamic / static and how does linking affect the license of the linkee. > And as the software is GPL licensed, the source _has_ to be made available at > least on request by ways equally convinient as the binaries (afaik this > ruling > in the gpl-text wants to prevent that requests for the source-code have to be > written on 200$ notes or that the >1million lines of code are sent via fax or > snail-mail). There is no statement about GPL on the Impro-visor site nor could I find such a statement in the archive.org copies of previous pages. Wikipedia states it's GPL as does http://www.softsynth.com/links/java_music.html but .. has the copyright holder(s) ever declared it as GPL? Furthermore, as I said in my previous post: the copyright holders are free to stop using GPL. You may fork if you receive GPL licensed source from the authors or from a previous licensee (someone who made a copy while it was under GPL with the licenses intact etc.). You however may not fork it based on a disassembled code not released under GPL. Maybe I've missed something crucial in this discussion, so I'll ask the stupid question (directed towards Raymond): Was the impro-visor version 3.99 released under GPL? .. or Are you assuming the whole of Impro-visor is subject to GPL as it has violated the GPL of jmusic? Sampo _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
